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Some species of plants have evolved complex flowers to attract polliantors and fertilise other plants. Here we show, that this complexity can also breakdown, repeatedly, through the repeated evolution of "simpler" flowers from "complex" ancestors.
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Why is it important?
The breakdown of complex structures reminds us that evolution is not unidireccional and often de-constructs complex phenotypes.
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This page is a summary of: Recurrent modification of floral morphology in heterantherous Solanum reveals a parallel shift in reproductive strategy, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2014, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0256.
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