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Spontaneous Firings of Carnivorous Aquatic Utricularia Traps: Temporal Patterns and Mechanical Oscillations

Aquatic species of Utricularia are carnivorous plants living in environments poor in nutrients. Their trapping mechanism has fascinated generations of scientists and is still debated today. It was reported recently that Utricularia traps can fire spontaneously. We show here that these spontaneous fi...

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Autores principales: Vincent, Olivier, Roditchev, Ivan, Marmottant, Philippe
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103537/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21647417
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020205