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Further Reading

General

Barlow, B.A. The loranthaceous mistletoes in Australia. In Keast, A. (Ed.) Ecological Biogeography of Australia, pp 557-574 (1981) [Junk: The Hague].

Barlow, B.A. Mistletoes. Biologist 34: 261 (1987).

Beckman, R. The secret life of mistletoes. Ecos 53: 22 (1987).

Haustorial structure

Hamilton, S.G. and Barlow, B.A. Studies in Australian Loranthaceae. II. Attachment structures and their interrelationships. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 88: 74 (1963).

Calvin, C.L. and Wilson, C.A. The haustorial system in African Loranthaceae. In Polhill, R. and Wiens, D. (Eds.) The mistletoes of Africa, pp. 17-36 (1998) [Royal Botanic Gardens: Kew].

Mistletoe bird and dispersal

Reid, N. Behaviour, voice and breeding of the mistletoe bird in arid woodlands. The Victorian Naturalist 114: 135 (1997).

Dispersal range

Keast, A. The influence of ecology on variation in the mistletoe-bird (Dicaeum hirundinaceum). Emu 58: 195 (1958).

How did some mistletoes get to remote islands?

Barlow, B.A. and Schodde, R. Bird dispersal of loranthaceous mistletoes to remote Pacific islands: symbiosis in default. Beaufortia 43: 124 (1993).

Mistletoes as food plants for butterflies

Braby, M.F. Afrotropical mistletoe butterflies: Larval food plant relationships of Mylothris Hubner (Lepidoptera: Pieridae). Journal of Natural History 39: 499 (2005).

Do mistletoes show cryptic mimicry of their hosts?

Barlow, B.A. and Wiens, D. Host-parasite resemblance in Australian mistletoes: the case for cryptic mimicry. Evolution 31: 69 (1977).

Downey, Paul O. (1998) 'An inventory of host species for each aerial mistletoe species (Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) in Australia' Cunninghamia 5(3) pp.685-720.

Palatibility and possum feeding

Choate, J.H., Andrews, R.H. and Barlow, B.A. Herbivory and cryptic mimicry mimicry in Australian Loranthaceae. In Weber, H.C. and Forstreuter, W. (Eds.) Parasitic Flowering Plants, pp. 127-135 (1987) [Philipps-Universitat: Marburg].

The bird search image hypothesis

Barlow, B.A. Mistletoes. Biologist 34: 261 (1987).

Nutrient metabolism

Hall, P.J., Badenoch-Jones, J., Parker, C.W., Letham, D.S. and Barlow, B.A. Identification and quantification of cytokinins in the xylem sap of mistletoes and their hosts in relation to leaf mimicry. Australian Journal of Plant Physiology 14: 429 (1987).

Epiparasites: Water potential and nutrition

Glatzel, G. and Balasubramanian, S, Mineral nutrition of mistletoes: General concepts. In Weber, H.C. and Forstreuter, W. (Eds.) Parasitic Flowering Plants, pp. 263-276 (1987) [Philipps-Universitat: Marburg, Germany].

Origin of the mistletoe habit

Wilson , C.A. and Calvin, C.L. An origin of aerial branch parasitism in the mistletoe family Loranthaceae. American Journal of Botany 93: 787 (2006).

Mistletoe reproductive system and embryology

Maheshwari, P., Johri, B.M. and Dixit, S.N. The floral morphology and embryology of the Loranthoideae (Loranthaceae). Journal of Madras University 27B: 121 (1957).

Bhatnagar, S.P. and Johri, B.M. Embryology of Loranthaceae. In Calder, M. and Bernhardt, P. (Eds.) The Biology of Mistletoes, pp. 47-67 (1983) [Academic Press: Sydney].

Mistletoes and southern hemisphere biogeography

Barlow, B.A. Biogeographical relationships of Australia and Malesia: Loranthaceae as a model. In Baas, P., Kalkman, K. and Geesink, R. (Eds.) The Plant Diversity of Malesia, pp. 273-292 (1990) [Kluwer: Dordrecht].

Taxonomy

Danser, B.H. On the taxonomy and nomenclature of the Loranthaceae of Asia and Australia. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg ser. 3, 10: 291 (1929).

Barlow, B.A. Advances in systematic knowledge of Australian Loranthaceae and Viscaceae: a review. Telopea 6: 851 (1996).

Evolution of dioecy in Viscum

Barlow, B.A. Viscum album in Japan: Chromosomal translocations, maintenance of heterozygosity and the evolution of dioecy. Botanical Magazine, Tokyo 94: 21 (1981).

Mistletoe in folk legend and medicine

Kanner, L. Mistletoe, magic and medicine. Bulletin of the history of medicine 7: 875 (1959).

Barlow, B.A. Mistletoes. Biologist 34: 261 (1987).

Beckman, R. The secret life of mistletoes. Ecos 53: 22 (1987).

Checklist and host genera

Downey, Paul O. (1998) 'An inventory of host species for each aerial mistletoe species (Loranthaceae and Viscaceae) in Australia' Cunninghamia 5(3) pp.685-720.