Ants sow the seeds of global diversification in flowering plants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Lengyel, Szabolcs ^a,b   Gove, Aaron D ^c   Latimer, Andrew M ^d   Majer, Jonathan D ^c   Dunn, Robert R ^a,c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; ANT; ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT INSECT INTERACTION; SEED DISPERSAL; SOWING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED;

ANIMALIA; FORMICIDAE; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANGIOSPERMS; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; SEEDS;

EID: 66049109836     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005480     Document Type: Article

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