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Botany: Scent of death attracts coffin flies to pipevine flowers

In a new study, an international team of plant researchers including the Institute of Botany at TU Dresden has discovered an unusual and previously unknown reproductive strategy in plants: the Greek pipevine species Aristolochia microstoma produces a unique mixture of volatiles that resembles the smell of dead and decaying insects to attract the pollinating fly genus Megaselia (also known as coffin flies ) to its trap-flowers. The study was recently published in the open-access journal Frontiers .

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