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Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers.

Nature - 13 Jun 2002

Jesson Linley K, Barrett Spencer C H

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Enantiostyly is a plant sexual polymorphism in which female sex organs are deflected to the left or right -- resulting in 'mirror-image' flowers -- but, although it occurs in at least a dozen unrelated families of flowering plants, its adaptive significance has been unclear. Here we show that a mendelian locus governs the inheritance of style orientation and that this curious form of sexual asymmetry functions to...

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PMID: 12066175
DOI: 10.1038/417707a

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