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Image Title: A Hover-fly Transports Pollinia Among Flowers of Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz
Image Credit: Richard M. Bateman, Natural History Museum
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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A hover-fly transports pollinia among flowers of Epipactis helleborine (L.) Crantz in England. Dominantly wasp-mediated cross-pollination has generated genetic structures consistent with random mating in both European and introduced North American populations.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Partitioning and diversity of nuclear and organelle markers in native and introduced populations of Epipactis helleborine (Orchidaceae)

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