title: Adaptive evolution: the legacy of past giants.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, University of British-Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Hannes
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Dempewolf
authors.forename: Loren H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Rieseberg
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D000818:Animals; D005075:Biological Evolution; D001717:Birds; D017753:Ecosystem; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D010944:Plants / Q000033:anatomy & histology*