Hummingbirds as drivers of plant speciation?

Trends in Plant Science

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 329-331

  Schmidt Lebuhn, Alexander N ^a   Kessler, Michael ^b   Hensen, Isabell ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIRD; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LETTER; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; EVOLUTION; GENETIC SPECIATION; PLANTS; POLLINATION;

TROCHILIDAE;

EID: 34547495226     PISSN: 13601385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tplants.2007.06.009     Document Type: Letter

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