Intoduction & Nepenthes
Chris Frazier (cfrazie@unm.edu)
Wed, 1 Feb 1995 19:45:13 -0700
Hello CPers,
My name is Chris Frazier and I have been listening in for the last
month. Very little has been published in the mainstream journals on the
ecology of Nepenthes, so I am glad to find such a good resource here in
cyberspace. I get the feeling that there is a lot of expertise around in
the people who participate in this group.
My interests are in how interfertile species can cooccur in nature
and the role of hybridization in the evolution and ecology of such
successful groups as the Nepenthes. My advisor, Tim Lowrey, worked with
Nepenthes when he was at the U. of Singapore. He got me interested in the
group even though my Master's work was with Ceanothus, a nonCP genus of
California shrubs.
The more specific goal of my Ph. D. study is to compare divergence
in reproductive biology and pollinations systems of Nepenthes with
geographical isolation and divergence in feeding strategy. I intend to
work in Singapore, using the three species there, and to have another site
in peninsular Malaysia or Borneo, looking again at the same three species
plus others including some highland species. I am just starting out and
still have a lot of work to do just becoming familiar with the taxa. I
have a small cutting of a plant that was labeled as N. papauna, but
besides that I am pretty new to CPs.
If anyone out there has information the'd like to share about
Nepenthes pollinators, flowers and inflorescences, feeding strategies or
hybridization, I would be most appreciative to here about it. I'll
probably be posting more specific questions later on.
I look forward to talking with you,
Chris
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Chris Frazier
Dept. of Biology, Castetter Hall, UNM
Albuquerque, NM, USA 87131
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