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Plasticity and environment-specific covariances: an investigation of floral-vegetative and within flower correlations.
Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Dec 2007
Brock Marcus T, Weinig Cynthia
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Floral traits are commonly thought to be more canalized than vegetative ones. In addition, floral and vegetative traits are hypothesized to be genetically decoupled, enabling vegetative structures to respond plastically to environmental heterogeneity, and to evolve in response to selection without disrupting the reproductive function of flowers. To test these hypotheses, we evaluate the genetic architecture of...
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