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SUBMITTER: Vincent O
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3103537 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vincent Olivier O Roditchev Ivan I Marmottant Philippe P
PloS one 20110527 5
Aquatic species of Utricularia are carnivorous plants living in environments poor in nutrients. Their trapping mechanism has fascinated generations of scientists and is still debated today. It was reported recently that Utricularia traps can fire spontaneously. We show here that these spontaneous firings follow an unexpected diversity of temporal patterns, from "metronomic" traps which fire at fixed time intervals to "random" patterns, displaying more scattered firing times. Some "bursting" trap ...[more]