The effect of gut passage by waterbirds on the seed coat and pericarp of diaspores lacking “external flesh”: Evidence for widespread adaptation to endozoochory in angiosperms

• Mihai Costea ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mcostea@wlu.ca

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3049-1763

  ⨯
• Hiba El Miari,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

  ⨯
• Levente Laczkó,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

  ⨯
• Réka Fekete,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

  ⨯
• Attila V. Molnár,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Botany, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

  ⨯
• Ádám Lovas-Kiss ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Andy J. Green

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Tisza Research, Wetland Ecology Research Group, MTA Centre for Ecological Research-DRI, Debrecen, Hungary

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8811-1623

  ⨯
• Andy J. Green

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Andy J. Green

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wetland Ecology Department, Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1268-4951

  ⨯