Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

Experimental evidence of pollination in marine flowers by invertebrate fauna

  • Brigitta I. van Tussenbroek,
  • Nora Villamil,
  • Judith Márquez-Guzmán,
  • Ricardo Wong,
  • L. Verónica Monroy-Velázquez,
  • Vivianne Solis-Weiss

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12980
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Marine plants reproduce by hydrophilly, that is, the movement of pollen by water. Here, the authors show that invertebrates can also carry pollen from male to female Thalassia testudinum plants.