The flower of seduction

Heidi Ledford
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Nature, 2007, vol. 445, issue 7130, 816-817

Abstract: Hundreds of orchid species lure their pollinators with the promise of sex, only to send them away unfulfilled. Heidi Ledford looks at how dishonesty gives them the evolutionary edge.

Date: 2007
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