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Explaining evolutionary shifts between bee and hummingbird pollination: convergence, divergence, and directionality.

2008-01-01

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In certain angiosperm genera, closely related species have diverged from one another to converge on different pollination syndromes, whereas species with intermediate phenotypes are rare or absent. Convergent conformity to syndromes implies the existence of “evolutionary attractors” toward which phenotypes are drawn; divergent breaks from conformity show that populations can escape one attractor and be...

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Literature Corpus work: cdd91e37-91c3-5780-beb9-36052637aa54
DOI: 10.1086/523361

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