Gelechiidae Moths Are Capable of Chemically Dissolving the Pollen of Their Host Plants: First Documented Sporopollenin Breakdown by an Animal

• Shixiao Luo,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Yongquan Li,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Shi Chen,

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Dianxiang Zhang ,

  * E-mail: renner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (SSR); dx-zhang@scbg.ac.cn (DZ)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Plant Resource Conservation and Sustainable Utilization, South China Botanical Garden, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Susanne S. Renner

  * E-mail: renner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (SSR); dx-zhang@scbg.ac.cn (DZ)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Munich (LMU), Munich, Germany

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