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Flower color microevolution in wild radish: evolutionary response to pollinator-mediated selection.
The American naturalist - 1 Feb 2005
Irwin Rebecca E, Strauss Sharon Y
Abstract excerpt
Evolutionary ecologists are fundamentally interested in how species interactions affect evolutionary change. We tested the degree to which plant-pollinator interactions affect the frequency of flower color morphs of Raphanus sativus. Petal color in R. sativus is determined by two independently assorting loci, producing four petal colors (yellow, white, pink, and bronze). We assessed the impact of pollinator...
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