- November 9, 2009
- 07:09 PM
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Insect pollination long before flowering plants
by Thomas Kluyver in Thomas' Plant-Related Blog
The first flowering plants evolved more than a hundred million years ago, while dinosaurs were still on the scene. Since then, they’ve come to dominate the world, largely outcompeting the plants that were there before, such as conifers, cycads, and ginkgoes. With some exceptions (particularly the taiga, the coniferous forests of Russia and Canada), the [...]... Read more »
Ren, D., Labandeira, C., Santiago-Blay, J., Rasnitsyn, A., Shih, C., Bashkuev, A., Logan, M., Hotton, C., & Dilcher, D. (2009) A Probable Pollination Mode Before Angiosperms: Eurasian, Long-Proboscid Scorpionflies. Science, 326(5954), 840-847. DOI: 10.1126/science.1178338
Ollerton, J., & Coulthard, E. (2009) Evolution of Animal Pollination. Science, 326(5954), 808-809. DOI: 10.1126/science.1181154
- November 9, 2009
- 11:05 AM
- 441 views
Pollination before flowers
by Jeremy Yoder in Denim and Tweed
Which came first, the pollinator or the pollinated? An article in this week's Science suggests that a diverse group of insects may have been drinking nectar and pollinating plants millions of years before the appearance of modern flowering plants [$-a].
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Panorpis communis, a modern scorpionfly species, and a sketch of anc........ Read more »
Ollerton, J., & Coulthard, E. (2009) Evolution of animal pollination. Science, 326(5954), 808-9. DOI: 10.1126/science.1181154
Ren, D., Labandeira, C., Santiago-Blay, J., Rasnitsyn, A., Shih, C., Bashkuev, A., Logan, M., Hotton, C., & Dilcher, D. (2009) A probable pollination mode before angiosperms: Eurasian, long-proboscid scorpionflies. Science, 326(5954), 840-7. DOI: 10.1126/science.1178338
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