Microarthropods mediate sperm transfer in mosses
Cronberg, Nils LU
; Natcheva, Rayna
LU
and Hedlund, Katarina
LU
(2006)
In Science
313(5791).
p.1255-1255
- Abstract
- 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.
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- author
- Cronberg, Nils
LU
; Natcheva, Rayna
LU
and Hedlund, Katarina
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2006
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Science
- volume
- 313
- issue
- 5791
- pages
- 1255 - 1255
- publisher
- American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
- external identifiers
-
- pmid:16946062
- wos:000240313500031
- scopus:33748372951
- ISSN
- 1095-9203
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.1128707
- project
- Fertilization syndromes in bryophytes
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 11224ac4-79c6-4ff3-a1a0-6fe2f3583eeb (old id 162651)
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title = {{Microarthropods mediate sperm transfer in mosses}},
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