Multipartite oil-flower/oil-bee mutualisms involving male-beepollinated orchids in tropical Asia  

作　　者：Meng Zhang Li-Bing Jia Susanne S.Renner Zhi-Xi Tian Xiao-An Wang Jiang-Yun Gao Yi-Bo Luo Antonio J.C.Aguiar Huan-Li Xu Shuang-Quan Huang 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Evolution and Ecology,School of Life Sciences,Central China Normal University,China [2]Department of Biology,Washington University,USA [3]State Key Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources in Yunnan,Yunnan University,China [4]State Key Laboratory of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany,Institute of Botany,Chinese Academy of Sciences,China [5]Department of Zoology,University of Brasília,Brazil [6]Department of Entomology,College of Plant Protection,China Agricultural University,China

出　　处：《National Science Review》2024年第5期98-100,共3页国家科学评论（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32030071 and U1402267);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(CCNU22LJ003).

摘　　要：Most animal-pollinated flowers offer nectar or pollen as a reward to their pollinators.A small fraction,however,have switched to other rewards,such as fatty oils offered in glandular hairs or just below the epidermis.This type of reward has evolved in some 150 genera in at least 11 families,including South American and African Orchidaceae[1,2].Oiloffering flowers are exploited by a few hundred species of oil-collecting bees in temperate and tropical biomes on all continents except Antarctica[1,2].Oil bees depend obligatorily on floral oil for cell lining and as larval food[3,4],which is why oil collecting usually is confined to female bees.

关 键 词：LARVAL flowers tropical 

分 类 号：Q985[生物学—人类学]