Mutualism between tree shrews and pitcher plants
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Modelling the relationship between a pitcher plant ( Sarracenia purpurea ) and its phytotelma community: mutualism or parasitism?
1 Université Montpellier 2, CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l’Evolution, CC 065, Place Eugène Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France; 2 Laboratoire de Comportement et écologie de la Faune Sauvag-INRA – Chemin de Borde Rouge. B.P. 52627, 31 326 Castanet Tolosan Cedex, France; 3 Department of Ecology and Evolution, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5245, USA; and 4 Department of...
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عنوان ژورنال: Plant Signaling & Behavior
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1559-2324
DOI: 10.4161/psb.5.10.12807