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Complex pollination of a tropical Asian rainforest canopy tree by flower-feeding thrips and thrips-feeding predators.
American journal of botany - 1 Nov 2016
Kondo Toshiaki, Nishimura Sen, Tani Naoki, Ng Kevin Kit Siong, Lee Soon Leong, Muhammad Norwati, Okuda Toshinori, Tsumura Yoshihiko, Isagi Yuji
Abstract excerpt
PREMISE OF THE STUDY: In tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, a highly fecund thrips (Thrips spp.) responds rapidly to the mass flowering at multiple-year intervals characteristic of certain species such as the canopy tree studied here, Shorea acuminata, by feeding on flower resources. However, past DNA analyses of pollen adherent to thrips bodies revealed that the thrips promoted a very high level of...
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