Abstract
Flowers exist in exceedingly complex fitness landscapes, in which subtle variation in each trait can affect the pollinators, herbivores and pleiotropically linked traits in other plant tissues. A whole-genome approach to flower evolution will help our understanding of plant-pollinator interactions.
MeSH terms
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Adaptation, Biological / genetics*
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Animals
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Biological Evolution
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Birds / anatomy & histology
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Birds / physiology
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Chiroptera / anatomy & histology
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Chiroptera / physiology
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Flowers / anatomy & histology
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Flowers / genetics*
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Genes, Plant*
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Genetic Variation
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Genomics
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Herbivory
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Insecta / anatomy & histology
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Insecta / physiology
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Ploidies
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Pollination / genetics*
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Ruminants / physiology
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Transcriptome*