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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...
Autores principales: | Rodríguez-Gironés, Miguel A., Llandres, Ana L. |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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