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Title

Major evolutionary transitions in flowering plant reproduction / edited by Spencer C. H. Barrett.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

Barrett, Spencer Charles Hilton.

Description

209 p. : ill. (some col.); 28 cm.

Series Statement

International journal of plant sciences, 1058-5893 ; v. 169, no. 1

Uniform Title

International journal of plant sciences ; v. 169, no. 1.

Subject

• Angiosperms > Phylogeny
• Angiosperms > Reproduction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Major evolutionary transitions in flowering plant reproduction: an overview / Spencer C.H. Barrett -- Evolutionary transitions in floral color / Mark D. Rausher -- Explaining evolutionary shifts between bee and hummingbird pollination: convergence, divergence, and directionality / James D. Thomson and Paul Wilson -- The influence of canopy position, pollinator syndrome, and region on evolutionary transitions in pollinator guild size / R.D. Sargent and J.C. Vamosi -- A phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of wind pollination in the angiosperms / Jannice Friedman and Spencer C.H. Barrett -- Function and evolution of aggregated pollen in angiosperms / Lawrence D. Harder and Steven D. Johnson -- Origin of the fittest and survival of the fittest: relating female gametophyte development to endosperm genetics / William E. Friedman, Eric N. Madrid, and Joseph H. Williams -- Loss of self-incompatibility and its evolutionary consequences / Boris Igic, Russell Lande, and Joshua R. Kohn -- Genomic consequences of outcrossing and selfing in plants / Stephen I. Wright [and others] -- On the evolution of self-fertilization in a metapopulation / Daniel J. Schoen and Jeremiah W. Busch -- Gender variation and transitions between sexual systems in Mercurialis annua (Euphorbiaceae) / John R. Pannell [and others] -- A phylogenetic study of evolutionary transitions in sexual systems in Australasian Wurmbea (Colchicaceae) / Andrea L. Case [and others] -- The evolutionary maintenance of sexual reproduction: evidence from the ecological distribution of asexual reproduction in clonal plants / Jonathan Silvertown -- The dynamic nature of apomixis in the angiosperms / Jeannette Whitton [and others] -- Cryptic sex within male-sterile polyploid populations of the Easter daisy, Townsendia hookeri / Stacey Lee Thompson [and others] -- Mating consequences of polyploid evolution in flowering plants: current trends and insights from synthetic polyploids / Brian C. Husband [and others].

ISBN

• 0226038165
• 9780226038162

LCCN

^^2008024588

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