title: Pollination: sexual mimicry abounds.
abstract: Why do plants mimic female insects to attract males for pollination? A new study gives insights into the advantages of sexual mimicry and documents this pollination system for the first time outside the orchid family, in a South African daisy.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Systematic Botany, University of Zürich, Zollikerstrasse 107, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland. florian.schiestl@systbot.uzh.ch
authors.forename: Florian P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Schiestl
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D035264:Flowers / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D007313:Insecta; D008297:Male; D054817:Pollination; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal