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DATA: RNA-seq data for N. mauritianus and J. herrerae nectary tissues are available at the NCBI SRA under the accession numbers GSE149898 and GSE191201, respectively. The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRoteomics IDEntifications Database (PRIDE) partner repository with the dataset identifier PXD029394 and 10.6019/PXD029394 for N. mauritianus and PXD029395 and 10.6019/PXD029395 for J. herrerae. GenBank accession numbers for the cloned cDNAs are as follows: NmNec1, OK664972; NmNec2, OK664973; NmNec3, OK664974; JhNec5, OL415498; JhNec7, OL504752. Samples of Nesocodon and Jaltomata nectars are available upon request.