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Scientists studied how genes are turned on and off during flower development in a group of plants with special spur structures on their flowers, finding evidence that duplication of a certain gene helped the evolution of these spurs for collecting nectar.
https://botany.one/2023/11/how-gene-duplication-led-to-the-evolution-of-nectar-spurs/