Going to great lengths: Selection for long corolla tubes in an extremely specialized bat-flower mutualism

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2147-2152

  Muchhala, Nathan ^a   Thomson, James D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anoura fistulata; Bat pollination; Centropogon nigricans; Chiropterophily; Coevolution; Darwin's race

Indexed keywords

ARMS RACE; BAT; DICOTYLEDON; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; MUTUALISM; NATURAL SELECTION; NECTAR; POLLINATOR; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANOURA FISTULATA; ARTICLE; BAT; FLOWER; FLOWER LENGTH; NONHUMAN; POLLEN; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

ANOURA;

EID: 66749134786     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0102     Document Type: Article

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