Heart failure: Intervention possibilities from imaging programmed cell loss
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... They found that most of the columbines' nectar spur length evolution happened during shifts in pollinators from bumblebees to hummingbirds, and from hummingbirds to hawkmoths. In between these shifts, evolution of the columbines' nectar spurs came to a halt. Whittall and Hodges' work provides evide...