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Size and positioning of floral anthers facilitates

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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