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Pollen grain morphology is not exclusively responsible for pollen collectability in bumble bees

Bee-pollinated plants face a dilemma in that bees both passively transport pollen grains among conspecific flowers and actively collect pollen to feed their larvae. Therefore, mechanisms that reduce pollen collection by bees have evolved in melittophilous plants. Malvaceae pollen is uncollectable fo...

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Autores principales: Konzmann, Sabine, Koethe, Sebastian, Lunau, Klaus
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6423004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30886330
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-41262-6