Interspecific variation in susceptibility to fungal pathogens in seeds of 10 tree species in the neotropical genus Cecropia
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Rachel E. Gallery*†, David J. P. Moore and James W. Dalling Program in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Geography, King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK; Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 0843-03092, Balboa, República de Panamá
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