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Costs and benefits of reticulate leaf venation

BACKGROUND: Recent theoretical and empirical work has identified redundancy as one of the benefits of the reticulate form in the evolution of leaf vein networks. However, we know little about the costs of redundancy or how those costs depend on vein network geometry or topology. Here, we examined bo...

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Autores principales: Price, Charles A, Weitz, Joshua S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4177576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25234042
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12870-014-0234-2