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- Title
- Venezuelan Columnar Cacti
- Author
- Janet Castro
- Keywords
- allozymes, bats, Cactaceae, Cereus, columnar cacti, Pilosocereus, population structure, Stenocereus, Venezuela
- Description
- BSA Plant Images Online - Pilosocereus lanuginosus, Stenocereus griseus, Cereus repandus
- The three most abundant Venezuelan columnar cacti, from left to right, Pilosocereus lanuginosus (Linnaeus) Byles & Rowley, Stenocereus griseus (Haworth) Buxbaum, and Cereus repandus (Linnaeus) Miller. These species depend strictly on nectar-feeding bats for their pollination. Bat-mediated gene dispersal confers high levels of genetic exchange among populations of the three species, a process that enhances levels of genetic diversity within their populations.
- Publisher
- Botanical Society of America
- Additional data
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copyright: BSA,
license: http://images.botany.org/index.html#license
- Collection
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Population Biology
- End User Role
- Teacher, Learner
- Categories
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