Article
Morphospace exploration reveals divergent fitness optima between plants and pollinators.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2019
Peng Foen, Campos Eric O, Sullivan Joseph Garret, Berry Nathan, Song Bo Bin, Daniel Thomas L, Bradshaw H D
Abstract excerpt
The obligate mutualism and exquisite specificity of many plant-pollinator interactions lead to the expectation that flower phenotypes (e.g., corolla tube length) and corresponding pollinator traits (e.g., hawkmoth proboscis length) are congruent as a result of coevolution by natural selection. However, the effect of variation in flower morphology on the fitness of plants and their pollinators has not been...
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