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SUBMITTER: Lomascolo SB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2930445 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20100802 33
Seed dispersal by vertebrates is one of the most common and important plant-animal mutualisms, involving an enormous diversity of fruiting plants and frugivorous animals. Even though plant reproduction depends largely on seed dispersal, evolutionary ecologists have been unable to link co-occurring traits in fruits with differences in behavior, physiology, and morphology of fruit-eating vertebrates. Hence, the origin and maintenance of fruit diversity remains largely unexplained. Using a multivar ...[more]