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
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Integration, coincidence detection and resonance in networks of spiking neurons expressing Gamma oscillations and asynchronous states
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Phenotypic-dependent variability and the emergence of tolerance in bacterial populations
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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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Partitioning variability in animal behavioral videos using semi-supervised variational autoencoders
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