Partner choice through concealed floral sugar rewards evolved with the specialization of ant-plant mutualisms.

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• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  New Phytologist

• Publication date

  2016-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/nph.13990PMID 27159681
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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