Adaptive evolution: the legacy of past giants.
The wire syndrome shared by plants in New Zealand and Madagascar appears to have evolved convergently as a defence against herbivory from now extinct avian giants.
Dempewolf
Hannes
H
Department of Botany, University of British-Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Rieseberg
Loren H
LH
D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001717:Birds; D017753:Ecosystem; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D010944:Plants / Q000033:anatomy & histology*