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Sunday, July 28th

Sunday, July 28th
8:00 am to 12:00 pm · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session WS04: Workshop: Visual Learning in the Botany Classroom
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WS04001July 28th 8:00 amVisual Learning in the Botany Classroom
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Conference WideWorkshopKirchoff, Bruce.teaching
learning
active learning
visual learning
instructional software
Sunday, July 28th
1:00 pm to 5:00 pm · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session WS07: Workshop: Active Visual Learning of Plant Lifecycles
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WS07001July 28th 1:00 pmActive Visual Learning of Plant Lifecycles
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Conference WideWorkshopKirchoff, Bruce.lifecycles
teaching
learning
visual learning
active learning
life cycle
instructional software

Monday, July 29th

Monday, July 29th
8:15 am to 11:45 am · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session 3: Contributed Papers: Cookson/Moseley Award
Presiding: Brian Axsmith, University of South Alabama; Wilson Taylor, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - EAU CLAIRE
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3001July 29th 8:15 amEarly Devonian Drepanophycus from the Beartooth Butte Formation of Wyoming: a focus on rooting structures
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperMatsunaga, Kelly K.S.; Tomescu, Alexandru M.F..Drepanophycus
lycopsid
roots
fossil
Devonian
Wyoming
3002July 29th 8:30 amReexamination and analysis of microspore contents in Pennsylvanian spores and pollen grains
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperGlauser, Abby; Harper, Carla; Taylor, Thomas; Taylor, Edith; Marshall, Craig; Olcott Marshall, Alison.Raman microspectroscopy
fossil cell contents
nuclei
proteinaceous
thermal maturity
3003July 29th 8:45 amA polytrichaceous moss with gemmae from the Early Cretaceous of Vancouver Island (Canada)
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperBippus, Alexander; Shelton, Glenn W.K.; Stockey, Ruth; Rothwell, Gar; Tomescu, Alexandru M.F..Cretaceous
Moss
fossil
bryophyte
Polytrichaceae
gemmae
3004July 29th 9:00 amReappraising the Early Cretaceous permineralized flora of the Chickabally Mudstone (Budden Canyon Formation, Barremian-Aptian, California)
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperUnger, Christa; Tomescu, Alexandru M.F..Cretaceous
California
fossil
bryophyte
Moss
Conifer
fern
3005July 29th 9:15 amA second tricostate moss from the Early Cretaceous of Vancouver Island, British Columbia
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperShelton, Glenn W.K.; Rothwell, Gar; Stockey, Ruth; Tomescu, Alexandru M.F..Cretaceous
tricostate moss
bryophyte
fossil
3006July 29th 9:30 amNew evidence for the radiation of basal Cupressaceae
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperAtkinson, Brian; Stockey, Ruth; Rothwell, Gar.Cunninghamia
Cupressaceae
Hughmillerites
seed cone anatomy
July 29th 9:45 amBreak
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Paleobotanical Section
3008July 29th 10:15 amAutorotating winged seeds: what they tell us about tree height in extant and fossil conifers
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperRanks, Stephanie; Contreras, Dori; Marshall, Charles R.; Looy, Cindy V.Conifer
winged seed
autorotation
Permian
phylogeny
3009July 29th 10:30 amPhyllanthaceae and Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae) leaves from the Oligocene Los Ahuehuetes locality, Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla, Mexico
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperSalinas, Fabiola Estrada; Calvillo-Canadell, Laura; Cevallos-Ferriz, Sergio.Phyllanthaceae
Euphorbiaceae
Oligocene
Tepexi de Rodríguez, Puebla
Leaves
3010July 29th 10:45 amFlowers preserved in Miocene amber from Simojovel de Allende, Chiapas, Mexico, with affinity to Acalyphoideae (Euphorbiaceae)
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperHernandez Damian, Ana; Calvillo-Canadell, Laura; Cevallos-Ferriz, Sergio.
3011July 29th 11:00 am
Canceled
The structure, relationships and biology of Elaterosporites pollen from the Mid-Cretaceous of tropical South America
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperDoria, Gabriela.Albian
Cenomanian
palynology
Neotropics
Peru
Gnetales
3012July 29th 11:15 amNew data on the structure and phylogenetic position of an extinct Cretaceous redwood
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperContreras, Dori; Upchurch, Garland; Mack, Greg.Redwoods
Cupressaceae s. lat.
Sequoioid conifers
Cretaceous
3013July 29th 11:30 amTesting climatic influences on leaf shape across the vascular plant tree of life
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperBenca, Jeffrey; Stromberg, Caroline; Huttenlocker, Adam.ferns
leaf physiognomy
Lycopsids
paleoclimate
Proxy
temperature
Monday, July 29th
1:30 pm to 4:30 pm · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session 12: Contributed Papers: Paleozoic Paleobotany
Presiding: James Mickle, North Carolina State University
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12001July 29th 1:30 pmExploring ecological diversity of 407 million-year-old microorganisms from the Rhynie and Windyfield cherts (Scotland) using confocal laser scanning microscopy
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperStrullu-Derrien, Christine; Kenrick, Paul; Trewin, Nigel; Goral, Tomasz; Le Hérissé, Alain.Microorganisms
Devonian
Confocal laser scanning microscopy
fossils
12002July 29th 1:45 pmOrdovician fossil evidence for Sphagnum moss
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperGraham, Linda; Cardona-Correa, Christopher; Kodner, Robin.Ordovician
Sphagnum
12003July 29th 2:00 pmThe earliest record of insect herbivory presents a diversity of damage types
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperGorman, Mark; Dunn, Michael.herbivory
 Tournaisian
laminate
Price Formation
12004July 29th 2:15 pmA review of secondary phloem in Devonian and Mississippian lignophytes.
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperDecombeix, Anne-Laure; Galtier, Jean; Meyer-Berthaud, Brigitte.Devonian
Mississippian
secondary phloem
progymnosperms
seed plants
Anatomy
12005July 29th 2:30 pmLeaf trace production of selected Devonian and Mississippian seed ferns
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperDunn, Michael.Devonian
Hydrasperman seed ferns
Mississippian
rachis trace production
July 29th 2:45 pmBreak
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Paleobotanical Section
12007July 29th 3:15 pmFossil record of lower Paleozoic embryophyte characters in streptophytes
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperTaylor, Wilson; Strother, Paul.Paleozoic
palynology
streptophyte
12008July 29th 3:30 pmRevisiting root evolution
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperTomescu, Alexandru M.F..roots
auxin
fossil record
Evolution
12009July 29th 3:45 pmNew species of Ferugliocladus (Ferugliocladaceae) from Patagonia, Argentina, and homology discussion among Upper Paleozoic coniferophytes
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperGallego, Julieta; Cuneo, Nestor; Escapa, Ignacio.coniferophytes
Upper Paleozoic
Patagonia
Homology
Ferugliocladaceae
12010July 29th 4:00 pmFlight of the conifers: Reconstruction of the flight characteristics of Paleozoic winged conifer seeds
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperStevenson, Robert A.; Evangelista, Dennis; Looy, Cindy V.Permian
Conifer
winged seed
aerodynamics
12011July 29th 4:15 pmGlossopterid diversity between Transantarctic Sedimentary Basins
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperRyberg, Patricia; Taylor, Edith; Taylor, Thomas.Glossopteris
Permian
Megasporophyll
central Transantarctic Mountains
southern Victoria Land

Tuesday, July 30th

Tuesday, July 30th
8:15 am to 11:45 am · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session 16: Contributed Papers: Mesozoic/Cenozoic Paleobotany 1
Presiding: Michael Dunn, CAMERON UNIVERSITY
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16001July 30th 8:15 amSmall-scale interactions and the microbial diversity of the fern Ashicaulis: a Triassic micro-ecosystem
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperHarper, Carla; Taylor, Thomas; Taylor, Edith; Krings, Michael.Fungi
plant-fungal
ecology
plant-arthropod
osmundaceous fern
Antarctica
16002July 30th 8:30 amApplying micro CT and 3D visualization to silicified cones from the Late Jurassic Morrison Formation, USA: a virtual advantage over thin-sectioning
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperGee, Carole T..Micro CT
3D visualization
fossil
conifer seed cones
Pinaceae
Araucariaceae
Late Jurassic
Morrison Formation
16003July 30th 8:45 amSchizolepidopsis from the Early Cretaceous (Aptian-Albian) of Mongolia: new information regarding a possible affinity with the Pinaceae
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperLeslie, Andrew; Glasspool, Ian; Herendeen, Patrick; Ichinnorov, Niiden; Takahashi, Masamichi; Crane, Peter.Early Cretaceous
Mongolia
Conifer
Pinaceae
16004July 30th 9:00 amA probable ranunculacean fruit and associated leaves from the Cretaceous Ingersol Shale
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperStults, Debra; Axsmith, Brian; Boucher, Lisa.Cretaceous
Ranunculacean fruit
Eutaw Formation
Manihotites
Blackhawk Formation
Ingersol Shale
16005July 30th 9:15 amDicksoniaceous ferns from the Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperCuneo, Nestor; Escapa, Ignacio; Zamaloa, Maria; Gandolfo, Maria A,; Hermsen, Elizabeth J..Dicksoniaceae
Cretaceous
Patagonia
16006July 30th 9:30 amForest of Giants: An In situ Angiosperm Forest of Late Cretaceous South-Central New Mexico
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperParrott, Joan; Upchurch, Garland; Wheeler, Elisabeth; Mack, Greg.angiosperm
fossil wood
Late Cretaceous
July 30th 9:45 amBreak
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Paleobotanical Section
16008July 30th 10:15 amGenome size and the early angiosperms
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperLomax, Barry; Smillie, Ian; Knight, Charles; Upchurch, Garland.angiosperm
genome
palaeopolyploidy
16009July 30th 10:30 amIntra-canopy variation in epidermal morphology in Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperMelendrez, Meriel; Stevenson, Robert A.; Liao, Sherry; Kouwenberg, Lenny R.; Ambrose, Anthony; Dawson, Todd; Looy, Cindy V.Sequoia
Cuticle
Paleobotany
stomata
Intra-canopy Variation
Sequoia sempervirens
Sequoiadendron giganteum
Conifer
16010July 30th 10:45 amTrauma in the fossil record: dictyosporic conidia in an extinct fern may illustrate phenotypic response associated with Nox-dependent ROS production
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperKlymiuk, Ashley; Krings, Michael.paleomycology
Princeton Chert
Ascomycota
hyphomycetes
16011July 30th 11:00 amTiming the origin of Kelps
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperLooy, Cindy V; Romero, Rosemary; Huynh, Tony L.; Parkinson, Dula; Goedert, James L.; Kiel, Steffen.Kelp
Laminariales
Oligocene
Washington
Paleobotany
x-ray tomography
morphology
holdfast
16012July 30th 11:15 amLeaflets with Leguminosae affinity from the Mioceno of San Estaban Tizatlán, Tlaxcala, Mexico
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperDomínguez De La Torre, Aldo; Calvillo-Canadell, Laura; Cevallos-Ferriz, Sergio.Leguminoseae
Miocene
Chiapas
Pithecellobium
Abarema
16013July 30th 11:30 amMiocene woods from the Guacamayas locality, Marquez de Comillas, Chiapas, Mexico
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Paleobotanical SectionPaperCevallos-Ferriz, Sergio; Flores-Rocha, Luis; Calvillo-Canadell, Laura.Miocene
Lauraceae
Humiriaceae
Chiapas
fossil wood
Tuesday, July 30th
1:30 pm to 5:00 pm · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session 34: Contributed Papers: Pteridological Section/AFS
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34001July 30th 1:30 pmNutrient ecology of Mexican riparian ferns
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperMehltreter, Klaus.nutrients
Aluminum accumulators
Calcium
ferns
Mexico
riparian forests
34002July 30th 1:45 pmPatterns in pteridophyte community reassembly in secondary forests of Puerto Rico
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperSchmidt, Thomas J; Greer, Gary K..Puerto Rico
Maxent
community reassembly
secondary forest
Species richness
34003July 30th 2:00 pmMorphology and Introgressive Hybridization in North American Diphasiastrum
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperKlein, Laura.Introgression
hybridization
Lycopodium
Diphasiastrum
morphology
34004July 30th 2:15 pmGenomics of Allopolyploidy and Hybridization in Selaginella subg. Tetragonostachys
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperBaniaga, Anthony; Arrigo, Nils; Barker, Michael.Selaginella
allopolyploidy
genomics
hybridization
34005July 30th 2:30 pmSpore shape as a tool for the differentiation of diploid and tetraploid fern taxa with monolete spores
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperMchenry, Monique; Testo, Weston; Barrington, David.spore shape
Polyploidy
fern
spore development
34006July 30th 2:45 pmSo, if they are evolutionary dead-ends, why are apomictic cheilanthoid ferns more widely distributed than their sexual diploid progenitors?
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperJohnson, Anne Kathleen; Grusz, Amanda; Beck, James; Pryer, Kathleen; Windham, Michael.apomixis
breeding system
gametophytes
cheilanthoid ferns
long-distance establishment
xeric
Pteridaceae
34007July 30th 3:00 pmMining fern transcriptome data for low-copy nuclear markers
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperLi, Fay-Wei; Rothfels, Carl; Larsson, Anders; Sigel, Erin; Huiet, Layne; Korall, Petra; Ruhsam, Markus; Stevenson, Dennis; Graham, Sean; Wong, Gane Ka-Shu; Pryer, Kathleen.bioinformatics
Low-copy nuclear loci
nuclear marker
Phylogenetics
Polypodiales
transcriptome
ferns
July 30th 3:15 pmBreak
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Pteridological Section/AFS
34009July 30th 3:45 pmSystematic studies of Elaphoglossum section Polytrichia (Dryopteridaceae)
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperMatos, Fernando; Moran, Robbin.Elaphoglossum
ferns
Neotropics
Taxonomy
34010July 30th 4:00 pmSystematics and Phylogeny of Elaphoglossum section Squamipedia
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperVasco, Alejandra; Loriga, Josmaily; Moran, Robbin.ferns
Dryopteridaceae
cpDNA
34011July 30th 4:15 pmPhylogenetic relationships among species of adders tongue ferns (Ophioglossum s.s., Ophioglossaceae)
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperLee, Nicole; Hauk, Warren.Ophioglossum
adders tongue fern
phylogeny
34012July 30th 4:30 pmSequencing a Lazarus transcriptome: resurrecting “Dryopteris semicristata
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Pteridological Section/AFSPaperSessa, Emily; Givnish, Thomas; Barker, Michael.ferns
transcriptome
allopolyploidy
Dryopteris
extinct taxon

Wednesday, July 31st

Wednesday, July 31st
10:30 am to 12:00 pm · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session 43: Contributed Papers: Pollination Biology I
Presiding: Eva Gonzales, Saint Louis University
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43001July 31st 10:30 amIs inaperturate pollen produced by Australian dioecious Solanum a false reward for pollen foraging bees?
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Pollination BiologyPaperMartine, Christopher; Capaldi Evans, Elizabeth.Solanaceae
Solanum
dioecy
pollen
bees
dioecious
43002July 31st 10:45 amChanges in floral display of Saponaria officinalis (Bouncing bet) may cause pollinator discrimination
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Pollination BiologyPaperDavis, Sandra; Dudle, Dana.floral color change
anthocyanin
pollinator attraction
Saponaria officinalis
43003July 31st 11:00 amPollen tube growth and self-incompatibility in three Ziziphus species (Rhamnaceae)
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Pollination BiologyPaperTel-Zur, Noemi; Asatryan, Armine. Fruit set
 Parthenocarpy
 Protandrous dichogamy
 Ziziphus jujuba
 Ziziphus mauritiana
 Ziziphus spina-christi
43004July 31st 11:15 amLilium michiganense Pollination Biology and Habitat Preference
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Pollination BiologyPaperHarkreader, Ian; Ross, Nanci.Michigan Lily
pollination
long grass prairies
43005July 31st 11:30 amHoney bees dominate the pollination landscape in San Diego
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Pollination BiologyPaperKohn, Joshua.pollination
Honey bee
pollinator decline
Native bees
43006July 31st 11:45 amOrnithophilous Pollination Syndromes and the Evolution of Self Compatibility in Australian Passiflora
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Pollination BiologyPaperKrosnick, Shawn.Passiflora
Australia
honeyeater
ornithophily
Wednesday, July 31st
1:30 pm to 3:00 pm · Melrose/Riverside Hilton
Session 45: Contributed Papers: Pollination Biology II
Presiding: Marcel Dorken, Trent University
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45001July 31st 1:30 pmSpatial dynamics of pollination in dioecious Shepherdia canadensis (Elaeagnaceae)
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Pollination BiologyPaperLin, Shang-Yao (Peter); Nol, Erica; Dorken, Marcel.dioecy
pollination
Arctic
sexual dimorphism
sex ratio
45002July 31st 1:45 pmSmelling like dead insects: Pollination biology of Aristolochia rotunda L. (Aristolochiaceae)
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Pollination BiologyPaperOelschlägel, Birgit; Nuss, Matthias; v. Tschirnhaus, Michael; Pätzold, Claudia; Neinhuis, Christoph; Dötterl, Stefan; Wanke, Stefan.olfactory deception
pollination
Aristolochia
chemical mimicry
kleptoparasitism
45003July 31st 2:00 pmSterile pollen and stamens in females of a cryptically dioecious angiosperm do not increase pollen receipt or seed set
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Pollination BiologyPaperPenny, Rebecca.cryptic dioecy
Thalictrum macrostylum
pollinator attraction
wind pollination
45004July 31st 2:15 pmFly pollination of Section Trigonopedia in the genus Cypripedium (Orchidaceae)
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Pollination BiologyPaperRen, Zong-Xin; Wang, Hong; Bernhardt, Peter; Li, De-Zhu.Cypripedium
Deception
pollination
Mimicry
45005July 31st 2:30 pmPollinator-mediated interactions between Clarkia unguiculata and its neighbors are context-dependent
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Pollination BiologyPaperHa, Melissa K.; Ivey, Christopher T..Clarkia unguiculata
competition
context-dependent interactions
Facilitation
floral neighborhood
flowering time
indirect interactions
pollinator-mediated interactions
45006July 31st 2:45 pmEffects of floral display size on male and female reproductive success in monkeyflower
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Pollination BiologyPaperKarron, Jeffrey; Mitchell, Randall.pollination
mating system
paternity
siring success
functional gender
pollen discounting
Mimulus
selfing rate

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