Microarthropods mediate sperm transfer in mosses
Författare
Summary, in English
Among flowering plants, animals commonly act as pollinators. We showed that fertile moss shoots attract springtails and mites, which in turn carry moss sperm, thereby enhancing the fertilization process. Previously, fertilization of mosses was thought to depend on the capacity of individual sperm to swim through a continuous water layer. The role of microarthropods in moss fertilization resembles the role of animals as pollinators of flowering plants but may be evolutionarily much older because of the antiquity of the organism groups involved.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2006
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
1255-1255
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Science
Volym
313
Issue
5791
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Ämne
- Ecology
Status
Published
Projekt
- Fertilization syndromes in bryophytes
Forskningsgrupp
- Soil Ecology
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1095-9203