Close Encounters
A Journey into the past in Search of Agapetes’ Pollinators: Could They Have Been Extinct Hummingbirds?
Agapetes species native to the Himalayas exhibit red, tubular, pendulous flowers, characteristic of hummingbird pollination. However, these birds are not found on the Asian continent! Kriebel and colleagues reconstructed the evolutionary history of the family to test the hypothesis that now-extinct