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Resource Competition Triggers the Co-Evolution of Long Tongues and Deep Corolla Tubes

BACKGROUND: It is normally thought that deep corolla tubes evolve when a plant's successful reproduction is contingent on having a corolla tube longer than the tongue of the flower's pollinators, and that pollinators evolve ever-longer tongues because individuals with longer tongues can ob...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Gironés, Miguel A., Llandres, Ana L.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2500161/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18714343
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002992