[Pollinator] Monkeyflowers and pollinator preference

[Matthew Shepherd (Xerces Society)]

It's certainly an interesting subject. To read more about this, Schemske and Bradshaw published a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It's available online at http://www.pnas.org, in the archive for 1999; October 12 issue, in the section on evolution. I happened to find it when searching the PNAS archive for bee papers.

Full citation:
Schemske, D. W., and H. D. Bradshaw. 1999. Pollinator preference and the evolution of floral traits in monkeyflowers (Mimulus). PNAS 96(21);11910-11915.

Matthew

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On 12/1/2005 at 8:54 AM Kimberly Winter wrote:

>A fascinating article on evolutionary changes in flower color and
>pollinator 
>preferences:
>
>http://www.uwnews.org/article.asp?articleID=2212
>
>
>~Kim
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