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    repeated independent evolution of heterostyly as opposed to homostylous self-incompatibility: 1) that heterostyly has evolved as a mechanism to reduce...
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    complex reproductive strategies include secondary pollen presentation, heterostyly, and unisexual flowers. Secondary pollen presentation (also known as...
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    Charles Darwin study of heterostyly in 1877 (The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species). Since then, heterostyly (and homostyly) have...
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    subtropical waters. Charles Darwin was interested in the specialized form of heterostyly found in the family, known as tristyly. Not all of the species are heterostylous...
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    molecular recognition systems and morphological mechanisms such as heterostyly.: 73, 74  In pines and other conifers, the sex organs are produced within...
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  • inbreeding. It is an example of heterostyly and reciprocal herkogamy, like distyly, which is the more common form of heterostyly. Darwin first described tristylous...
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  • typically associated with Lepidopteran (moth or butterfly) pollination. Heterostyly Peter K. Endress (1996). Diversity and evolutionary biology of tropical...
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    linked genes on a single chromosome. Batesian mimicry in butterflies and heterostyly in angiosperms are good examples. There is a long-standing debate as...
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    has led to several species becoming naturalized or invasive. Dimorphic heterostyly occurs in all genera but Liparophyllum. In addition, four species of...
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    possibly unique within the family Fabaceae in the fact they exhibit heterostyly. This reduces propagation potential, and obviously reduces seed production...
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