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Why Petals? Naïve, but Not Experienced Bees, Preferentially Visit Flowers with Larger Visual Signals
SIMPLE SUMMARY: Why do plants have showy flowers? Clearly, many plant species must attract pollinators and have floral adaptations for this. However, some flowers attract insects without showy petals. This suggests that a key function of showy visual signals is to attract naïve, first-time pollinato...
Autores principales: | Balfour, Nicholas J., Ratnieks, Francis L. W. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9962955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36835699 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects14020130 |
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