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Science 11 September 1992:
Vol. 257. no. 5076, pp. 1491 - 1495
DOI: 10.1126/science.1523408
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Science, Vol 257, Issue 5076, 1491-1495
Copyright © 1992 by American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Carnivorous plants: phylogeny and structural evolution

VA Albert, SE Williams, and MW Chase

The carnivorous habit in flowering plants represents a grade of structural organization. Different morphological features associated with the attraction, trapping, and digestion of prey characterize a diversity of specialized forms, including the familiar pitcher and flypaper traps. Phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequence data from the plastic rbcL gene indicates that both carnivory and stereotyped trap forms have arisen independently in different lineages of angiosperms. Furthermore, these results demonstrate that flypaper traps share close common ancestry with all other trap forms. Recognition of these patterns of diversification may provide ideal, naturally occurring systems for studies of developmental processes underlying macromorphological evolution in angiosperms.


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