Developmental instability of gynodioecious Teucrium lusitanicum
Evolutionary Ecology
By: C.L. Alados, T. Navarro, B. Cabezudo, J.M. Emlen, and C. Freeman
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Abstract
Developmental instability was assessed in two geographical races of Teucrium lusitanicum using morphometric measures of vegetative and reproductive structures. T. lusitanicum is a gynodioecious species. Male sterile (female) individuals showed greater developmental instability at all sites. Plants located inland had higher developmental instability of vegetative characters and lower developmental instability of reproductive characters than coastal plants. These results support the contentions that (1) developmental instability is affected more by the disruption of co-adapted gene complexes than by lower heterozygosity, and (2) different habitat characteristics result in the differential response of vegetative and reproductive structures.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Developmental instability of gynodioecious Teucrium lusitanicum |
| Series title | Evolutionary Ecology |
| DOI | 10.1023/A:1006502922611 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Year Published | 1998 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Springer |
| Contributing office(s) | Western Fisheries Research Center |
| Description | 14 p. |
| First page | 21 |
| Last page | 34 |
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