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The unique mouse pollination in an orchid species

Yong Wang¹, Yang Zhang², Xiao-Kai Ma¹, & Li Dong³

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1. Biological Sciences Department, Shaanxi University of Technology
2. Wuhan Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences
3. College of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Southwest University, China

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Received 22 April 2008 05:12 UTC; Posted 22 April 2008

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Evolution and Ecology, Earth and Environment

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• pollination
• orchids
• Plants

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The Chinese orchid, Cymbidium serratum, is pollinated by the wild mountain mouse Rattus fulvescens. The flowers use both odor and colour as attractants, and provide labellum as food reward for the pollinators. The mice pollinate the flowers during their endeavour to eat the labellums.

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Wang, Yong, Zhang, Yang, Ma, Xiao-Kai, and Dong, Li. The unique mouse pollination in an orchid species. Available from Nature Precedings <http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1824.1> (2008)

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