Pollination and seed predation by moths on Silene and allied Caryophyllaceae evaluating a model system to study the evolution of mutualisms

Pollination and seed predation by moths on Silene and allied Caryophyllaceae : evaluating a model system to study the evolution of mutualisms

Nursery pollinators, and the plants they use as hosts for offspring development, function as exemplary models of coevolutionary mutualism. The two pre-eminent examples--fig wasps and yucca moths--show little variation in the interaction: the primary pollinator is an obligate mutualist. By contrast,...

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Veröffentlicht in:The New phytologist. - 1979. - 169(2006), 4 vom: 15., Seite 667-80
1. Verfasser: Kephart, Susan (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Reynolds, Richard J, Rutter, Matthew T, Fenster, Charles B, Dudash, Michele R
Format: Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2006
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:The New phytologist
Schlagworte:Journal Article Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Review