Cooperate-and-radiate co-evolution between ants and plants
K. M. Kaur, P.-J. G. Male, E. Spence, C. Gomez, M. E. Frederickson
The paper investigates whether mutualistic interactions between ants and plants accelerate diversification in both lineages, finding that ant species associated with plants have higher diversification rates.
bioRxiv · Apr 23, 2018Evolutionary Biology