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Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants.

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Feb 2017

Blanchard Benjamin D, Moreau Corrie S

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Evolutionary biologists have long predicted that evolutionary trade-offs among traits should constrain morphological divergence and species diversification. However, this prediction has yet to be tested in a broad evolutionary context in many diverse clades, including ants. Here, we reconstruct an expanded ant phylogeny representing 82% of ant genera, compile a new family-wide trait database, and conduct various...

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PMID: 27859046
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13117

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