Morphospace exploration reveals divergent fitness optima between plants and pollinators.

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. Howev...

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Main Authors: Foen Peng, Eric O Campos, Joseph Garret Sullivan, Nathan Berry, Bo Bin Song, Thomas L Daniel, H D Bradshaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213029