The Dept of Botany, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4238, USA.
Trends Ecol Evol. 1997 Jun;12(6):231-4. doi: 10.1016/s0169-5347(97)01045-8.
Recent empirical studies hint at an end to the historical solitude between pollination and mating system approaches to plant reproductive character evolution. Now is an opportune time to distill theoretical results into comprehensible insight, and to integrate these findings into the emerging new plant reproductive biology. We outline four theoretical insights for understanding the evolution of reproductive characters, and show how these allow researchers to dissect complex ecological scenarios into clear and evolutionarily relevant components.
最近的实证研究表明，授粉和交配系统方法在植物生殖特征进化方面的历史孤立状态即将结束。现在是将理论成果提炼为可理解的见解，并将这些发现纳入新兴的新植物生殖生物学的好时机。我们概述了理解生殖特征进化的四个理论观点，并展示了这些观点如何使研究人员能够将复杂的生态情景分解为清晰且具有进化相关性的组成部分。
