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The Chemistry of Sexual Deception in an Orchid-Wasp Pollination System
Florian P. Schiestl,1*Rod Peakall,1Jim G. Mant,1*Fernando Ibarra,2Claudia Schulz,2Stephan Franke,2Wittko Francke2
The "sexually deceptive" orchid Chiloglottis trapeziformis attractsmales of its pollinator species, the thynnine wasp Neozeleboriacryptoides, by emitting a unique volatile compound, 2-ethyl-5-propylcyclohexan-1,3-dione,which is also produced by female wasps as a male-attractingsex pheromone.
1 School of Botany and Zoology, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia. 2 Institute of Organic Chemistry, University of Hamburg, Martin-Luther-King Platz 6, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany.
* Present address: Geobotanical Institute, ETH Zürch, Zollikerstrasse107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland.
To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: francke{at}chemie.uni-hamburg.de
The discovery of 2,5-dialkylcyclohexan-1,3-diones as a new class of natural products.
S. Franke, F. Ibarra, C. M. Schulz, R. Twele, J. Poldy, R. A. Barrow, R. Peakall, F. P. Schiestl, and W. Francke (2009)
PNAS
106, 8877-8882
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The pollination of a self-incompatible, food-mimic orchid, Coelogyne fimbriata (Orchidaceae), by female Vespula wasps.
J. Cheng, J. Shi, F.-Z. Shangguan, A. Dafni, Z.-H. Deng, and Y.-B. Luo (2009)
Ann. Bot.
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Deception above, deception below: linking pollination and mycorrhizal biology of orchids.
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