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Pollinators show flower colour preferences but flowers with similar colours do not attract similar pollinators.

Annals of botany - 1 Aug 2016

Reverté Sara, Retana Javier, Gómez José M, Bosch Jordi

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Colour is one of the main floral traits used by pollinators to locate flowers. Although pollinators show innate colour preferences, the view that the colour of a flower may be considered an important predictor of its main pollinators is highly controversial because flower choice is highly context-dependent, and initial innate preferences may be overridden by subsequent associative learning....

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PMID: 27325897
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcw103
PMCID: PMC4970366

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