Correlations among Traits Associated with Herbivore Resistance and Pollination: Implications for Pollination and Nectar Robbing in a Distylous Plant1
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2Department of Biology, Gilman Lab, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755 USA; 3Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 USA; 4Department of Plant, Soil and Insect Sciences and Graduate Program in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts 01003 USA; 5Department of Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 24061 USA
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