Zygomorphic flowers have fewer potential pollinator species
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Support for the predictions of the pollinator-mediated stabilizing selection hypothesis
Aims Floral traits are frequently used in traditional plant systematics because of their assumed constancy. One potential reason for the apparent constancy of flower size is that effective pollen transfer between flowers depends on the accuracy of the physical fit between the flower and pollinator. Therefore, flowers are likely to be under stronger stabilizing selection for uniform size than ve...
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عنوان ژورنال: Biology Letters
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1744-9561,1744-957X
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2020.0307