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Hardcover An Enthusiasm for Orchids: Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution Book

ISBN: 019518274X

ISBN13: 9780195182743

An Enthusiasm for Orchids: Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution

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The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to produce odors identical to those manufactured by female thynnine wasps. The male wasp's superb sensitivity to the scent of his female mate is the basis for the hammer orchid's deceit--in effect, orchids exploit the male insect's highly adaptive sense of smell for their own propagation. While pollinating orchids...

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