Breeding orchid species creates a new perfume
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 09:30
in Biology & Nature
Some orchids mimic the scent of a female insect in order to attract males for pollination. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology found that breeding two of these...
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