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Characterizing the Cauline Domatia of Two Newly Discovered Ecuadorian Ant Plants in Piper: An Example of Convergent Evolution
The stems of some myrmecophytes in Piper are used as domatia by resident ant colonies. Hollow, ant-occupied stems were previously known only in four species of southern Central American Piper, all members of Section Macrostachys. Here we present two additional, unrelated, hollow-stemmed myrmecophyte...
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| Lenguaje: | English |
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University of Wisconsin Library
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011874/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19613856 http://dx.doi.org/10.1673/031.009.2701 |