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We suggest that this unusual symmetry represents a morphological adaptation for their unique swimming style.

The superior phoretic ability of wing lice may be related to morphological adaptations for life on wing feathers, compared to body feathers.

The female Psithyrus has a number of morphological adaptations for combat, such as larger mandibles, a tough cuticle and a larger venom sac that increase her chances of taking over a nest.

Preliminary observations of H. cavitympanum indicate that they lack morphological adaptations for ET closure (Gridi-Papp, personal observation, [21]).

Myomys roachi lives on the ground, with no morphological adaptations for a scansorial or fossorial life style [59].

Our results illustrate how the apparent "victory" of one sex in the antagonistic coevolution of morphological adaptations for intromission control (male and female genitalia) triggers the evolution of a behavioral trait in another sex (post-mounting courtship signals).

One notable difference between the two species is that G. soricina has obvious morphological adaptations to nectar feeding [18] [19], while C. perspicillata is primarily a fruit-eating generalist with a considerably broader diet than G. soricina [17], [20], feeds on nectar only opportunistically, and lacks dramatic morphological adaptations for exploiting nectar [18].

In M. coronatus, we found none of the male morphological adaptations for EP mating that are characteristic of other members of the genus (Fig. 1).

In contrast to morphological adaptations for crypsis, divergent physiological adaptation to the different hosts is lacking, with both ecotypes exhibiting higher fecundity on the same host (Ceanothus) when predators are absent [ 29, 32].

The differences in floral morphology are probably because of the fundamentally different behavioural and cognitive abilities and the morphological adaptations for collecting floral rewards (e.g. long tongue, corbiculae) that separate bees from saprophilous flies and beetles, which are primarily not adapted to flower visitation (Faegri & Van der Pijl, 1971).

Similar to other halophytes, the succulence observed for P. acaciae growing on halophytic hosts showed a morphological adaptation of the mistletoe to salt stress (Breckle 1990).