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Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates pollen collection by bees

In their work, Dr. Peter Endress and his colleagues found that the sizes and positioning of the anthers facilitates pollen collection by buzz-pollinating bees. The male floral structures, anthers, release the pollen gradually, like tiny gumball dispensers. All of these characteristics--size, shape, placement, and timing -- may be controlled by networks of genes as well as by regulatory sequences that do not encode proteins.

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