Hundreds of orchid species lure their pollinators with the promise of sex, only to send them away unfulfilled. Heidi Ledford looks at how dishonesty gives them the evolutionary edge.
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Ledford, H. The flower of seduction. Nature 445, 816–817 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445816a
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Fernando Aleman
Dear Heidi Ledford,
I genuinely enjoy your articles, but please correct your last one: https://www.nature.com/arti.... RNAi was not "first discovered" in worms. ie: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.go...
The authors of your reference were awarded a Nobel Prize, but they did not "first discover RNAi".
Thanks,
Fernando.
PS: Sorry to write here, but did not know how to reach you.