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September 2021

The tomato flowers are characterized by possessing poricidal anthers, which restrict the exit of the pollen to a tiny opening on the apex of the anther. To extract pollen efficiently, some visiting bees grasp the anthers and quickly contracting their flight muscles, producing vibrations and an audible sound. The vibrations are transferred to the anthers, shaking and stimulating the pollen inside them to leave by the pores, a phenomenon known as floral sonication or buzz-pollination. DOI: pcbi.1009426

Image Credit: Priscila de Cássia Souza Araújo (co-author of the manuscript) photographed this bee visiting flowers of tomato plants grown at the experimental fields of the Federal University of Viçosa (Minas Gerais State, Brazil). We confirm that the image can publish under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The authors own the copyright for the image and confirm that agree with open Access License of PLOS Computational Biology.

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Research Articles

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Characterization of the NiRAN domain from RNA-dependent RNA polymerase provides insights into a potential therapeutic target against SARS-CoV-2

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FiCoS: A fine-grained and coarse-grained GPU-powered deterministic simulator for biochemical networks

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ISOTOPE: ISOform-guided prediction of epiTOPEs in cancer

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Rats spontaneously perceive global motion direction of drifting plaids

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Phenotypic-dependent variability and the emergence of tolerance in bacterial populations

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Drug-induced resistance evolution necessitates less aggressive treatment

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Heterodimer-heterotetramer formation mediates enhanced sensor activity in a biophysical model for BMP signaling

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Acetylcholine-gated current translates wake neuronal firing rate information into a spike timing-based code in Non-REM sleep, stabilizing neural network dynamics during memory consolidation

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Machine learning approach for automatic recognition of tomato-pollinating bees based on their buzzing-sounds

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High-integrity human intervention in ecosystems: Tracking self-organization modes

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A model of head direction and landmark coding in complex environments

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Partitioning variability in animal behavioral videos using semi-supervised variational autoencoders

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GRAFIMO: Variant and haplotype aware motif scanning on pangenome graphs

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Neighbor-enhanced diffusivity in dense, cohesive cell populations

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Dynamic Electrode-to-Image (DETI) mapping reveals the human brain’s spatiotemporal code of visual information

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