Coevolution of Cyanogenic Bamboos and Bamboo Lemurs on Madagascar.

Feeding strategies of specialist herbivores often originate from the coevolutionary arms race of plant defenses and counter-adaptations of herbivores. The interaction between bamboo lemurs and cyanogenic bamboos on Madagascar represents a unique system to study diffuse coevolutionary processes betwe...

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Main Authors: Daniel J Ballhorn, Fanny Patrika Rakotoarivelo, Stefanie Kautz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4988758?pdf=render