Comentario sobre "La evolución mediada por la cognición de los néctares florales de baja calidad"

Graham H Pyke1,2,3, Nickolas M Waser3,4,5

  • 1School of Life Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia. graham.pyke@uts.edu.au.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 9, 2017
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Resumen

El estudio desafía la idea de que el néctar diluido en flores polinizadas por murciélagos es paradójico. Argumenta que las suposiciones anteriores sobre las preferencias del néctar de los murciélagos y la evolución eran poco realistas, y no podían explicar las concentraciones de néctar observadas.

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