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SUBMITTER: Cozzolino S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1564100 | biostudies-literature | 2005 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cozzolino Salvatore S Schiestl Florian P FP Müller Andreas A De Castro Olga O Nardella Antonio Marco AM Widmer Alex A
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20050601 1569
Pollinator specificity has traditionally been considered the main reproductive isolation mechanism in orchids. Among Mediterranean orchids, however, many species attract and deceive pollinators by mimicking nectar-rewarding plants. To test the extent to which deceptive orchid species share pollinators, we collected and identified hemipollinaria-carrying insects, and used ribosomal sequences to identify the orchid species from which hemipollinaria were removed. We found that social and solitary b ...[more]