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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2012
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| 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 |