Crickets disperse seeds of early-diverging orchid Apostasia nipponica, suggesting an ancient association

Monday, August 10, 2020 - 10:21 in Biology & Nature

Associate Professor Suetsugu Kenji (Kobe University Graduate School of Science) has found unusual seed dispersal systems by crickets and camel crickets in Apostasia nipponica (Apostasioideae), acknowledged as an early-diverging lineage of Orchidaceae. These findings were published on August 11 in the online edition of Evolution Letters.

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