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Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 791395, 9 pages
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Might Heterostyly Underlie Spider Occurrence on Inflorescences? A Case Study of Palicourea rigida (Rubiaceae), a Common Shrub from Brazilian Cerrado

Suzana Diniz,1 Everton Tizo-Pedroso,2 Denise Lange,3 Andréa Andrade Vilela,3 Danielle G. Justino,3 Fernanda Alves Martins,3 Erika Germanos,4 Rafael Arruda,5 and Vanessa Stefani3

1Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMP, Caixa Postal 6109, 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
2Unidade Universitária de Morrinhos, Universidade Estadual de Goiás, 75650-000 Morrinhos, GO, Brazil
3Laboratório de Ecologia ComportamentaL e de Interações—LECI, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, CP 593, 38400-902 Uberlândia, MG, Brazil
4UNICEUB/FACES, 70790-075, Brasília, DF, Brazil
5Instituto de Ciências Naturais, Humanas e Sociais, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Campus Universitário de Sinop, 78557-267 Sinop, MT, Brazil

Received 3 August 2012; Revised 15 October 2012; Accepted 16 October 2012

Academic Editor: Kleber Del-Claro

Copyright © 2012 Suzana Diniz et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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