EFFECTS OF OVULE AND SEED ABORTION ON BROOD SIZE AND FRUIT COSTS IN THE LEGUMINOUS SHRUB CAESALPINIA GILLIESII (WALL. EX HOOK.) D. DIETR

Effects of ovule and seed abortion on brood size and fruit costs in the leguminous shrub Caesalpinia gilliesii (Wall. ex Hook.) D. Dietr

For several plant species, brood size results from the abortion of ovules and seeds.However, these processes have rarely been studied together in wild plants.In some Used Optics of the leguminous species studied, seed abortion has been found to depend on pollen quality and on the position of the ovule or fruit.The direct consequence for the mother

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Cellular scaling rules for the brain of afrotherians

Quantitative analysis of the cellular composition of rodent, primate and eulipotyphlan brains has shown that nonneuronal scaling rules are similar across these mammalian orders that diverged about 95 million years ago, and therefore appear to be conserved in evolution, while neuronal scaling rules appear to be free to vary in evolution in a clade-s

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