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Volume 41, Number 2,
June 1995:
The Yucca Plant and
the Yucca Moth

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the authors

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- mutualism
- coevolution
- a "transparent" system
- yucca moth pollination
- male and female yucca moths
- mark and recapture
- C.V. Riley
- the yucca plant
- yucca flowers
- yucca products
- yucca pods and larval moths
- bailing out of the pods
- old pods
- what we do not know
- what prevents a cheater?
- how did the yucca and yucca moth relationship evolve?
- solving problems
- for additional information

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The Yucca Plant and the Yucca Moth
by Marylee Ramsay and John Richard Schrock




Figure 4. Total number of emergence holes according to the number of holes per pod sampled (from Ramsay).



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