PART OF A HIGHLIGHT ON ORCHID BIOLOGY Pollination of Specklinia by nectar-feeding Drosophila: the first reported case of a deceptive syndrome employing aggregation pheromones in Orchidaceae
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Adam P. Karremans*, Franco Pupulin, David Grimaldi, Kevin K. Beentjes, Roland Butôt, Gregorio E. Fazzi, Karsten Kaspers, Jaco Kruizinga, Peter Roessingh, Erik F. Smets and Barbara Gravendeel Lankester Botanical Garden, University of Costa Rica, P.O. Box 302-7050 Cartago, Costa Rica, Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, The Netherlands, Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA, USA – Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL, USA, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA, Department of Pharmacology, Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, University of Applied Sciences Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands, Hortus botanicus, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands, Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity Conservation, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium *For correspondence. E-mail [email protected]
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Pollination of Specklinia by nectar-feeding Drosophila: the first reported case of a deceptive syndrome employing aggregation pheromones in Orchidaceae.
BACKGROUND AND AIMS The first documented observation of pollination in Pleurothallidinae was that of Endrés, who noticed that the 'viscid sepals' of Specklinia endotrachys were visited by a 'small fly'. Chase would later identify the visiting flies as being members of the genus Drosophila. This study documents and describes how species of the S. endotrachys complex are pollinated by different D...
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