A Carnivorous Plant Fed by Its Ant Symbiont: A Unique Multi-Faceted Nutritional Mutualism

Scarcity of essential nutrients has led plants to evolve alternative nutritional strategies, such as myrmecotrophy (ant-waste-derived nutrition) and carnivory (invertebrate predation). The carnivorous plant Nepenthes bicalcarata grows in the Bornean peatswamp forests and is believed to have a mutual...

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Autores principales: Bazile, Vincent, Moran, Jonathan A., Le Moguédec, Gilles, Marshall, David J., Gaume, Laurence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22590524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036179

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3348942/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22590524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036179

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