Paternal and maternal effects on propagule size in Anthoxanthum odoratum

Janis Antonovics1, Johanna Schmitt2

  • 1Botany Department, Duke University, 27706, Durham, NC, USA.

Oecologia
|March 18, 2017
PubMed

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