Using text-mined trait data to test for cooperate-and-radiate co-evolution between ants and plants.
Mutualisms may be "key innovations" that spur lineage diversification by augmenting niche breadth, geographic range, or population size, thereby increasing speciation rates or decreasing extinction rates. Whether mutualism accelerates diversification in both interacting lineages is an open...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-10-01
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| Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1007323 |