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Pollinator shift ensures reproductive success in a camouflaged alpine plant.

Tao HuangBo SongZhe ChenHang SunYang Niu
Published in: Annals of botany (2024)
Collectively, our results demonstrate that the flower-camouflaged population has different reproductive traits from the visually conspicuous yellow-flowered populations. A pollinator shift from bumblebees to flies, combined with high visitation frequency, compensates for the attractiveness disadvantage in camouflaged plants.
Keyphrases
  • genome wide
  • gene expression
  • drosophila melanogaster
  • genetic diversity