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The evolution of the traplining pollinator role in hummingbirds: specialization is not an evolutionary dead end

Trapliners are pollinators that visit widely dispersed flowers along circuitous foraging routes. The evolution of traplining in hummingbirds is thought to entail morphological specialization through the reciprocal coevolution of longer bills with the long-tubed flowers of widely dispersed plant spec...

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Autores principales: Rombaut, Louie M. K., Capp, Elliot J. R., Hughes, Emma C., Varley, Zoë K., Beckerman, Andrew P., Cooper, Natalie, Thomas, Gavin H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8767203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35042413
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.2484