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An ecological rule for animals applies to flowers
2015-01-08 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] When, in 1833, Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger published his key observation that warm-blooded animals tend to be more heavily pigmented or darker the closer they live to the equator, he probably didn't realize the degree to which the climate would change in the next 200 years or so. This week, University of Pittsburgh researchers Matthew Koski and Tia-Lynn Ashman proved that the same phenomenon described by Gloger, a German zoologist, exists among flowers. Their paper, “Floral pigmenta…
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