The effects of plant sexual system and latitude on resistance to herbivores.
L Ruth RivkinSpencer C H BarrettMarc T J JohnsonPublished in: American journal of botany (2018)
Our study found latitudinal variation in leaf herbivory and sex-biased resistance to weevil larvae that feed on the reproductive tissues of S. latifolia, which is predicted to be a necessary condition for herbivory to influence the evolution of dioecy.
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