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Temporal variation in phenotypic gender and expected functional gender within and among individuals in an annual plant.
Annals of botany - 1 Jul 2014
Austen Emily J, Weis Arthur E
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Adaptive explanations for variation in sex allocation centre on variation in resource status and variation in the mating environment. The latter can occur when dichogamy causes siring opportunity to vary across the flowering season. In this study, it is hypothesized that the widespread tendency towards declining fruit-set from first to last flowers on plants can similarly lead to a varying...
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