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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
Honeybees are the charismatic microfauna of the pollination world. But flies, bumblebees, butterflies and moths—they all pollinate, too. With varying degrees of success. The poorer ones are technically referred to as 'inefficient pollinators.' "Those that do visit but transfer very little pollen in their visit." Florian Schiestl, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Zurich.
Schiestl and his colleague grew field mustard plants, and exposed them to two types of pollinators: efficient bumblebees and inefficient hoverflies. After just 11 generations, they found that the plants visited by bumblebees were taller, twice as fragrant, and reflected more UV light—a visual signal for bees. And those factors made the progeny even more attractive to bumblebees at the end of the experiment: a sign the plants had adapted to their pollinators' preferences.
But the plants that got a fly-by from the flies? They grew shorter. Less fragrant. And actually adapted to do more self-pollination. Because hoverflies are lousy pollinators. The study is in the journal Nature Communications.

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So with honeybees in peril, what happens if we lose them? "This will trigger an evolutionary response in the plants. For example, if flies take over as more important pollinators, as they used to be in the past, then very likely we'll have some evolutionary change going on."
And if the change is self-pollination, that could be trouble. "Self-pollination leads to reduction of genetic variability in the population, and this can be a problem for the plants, because they have a reduced ability to evolve resistance against diseases." Meaning that if we lose the pollinators, it's the plants' genomes that may go to seed.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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n. 信号,标志
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charismatic [.kæriz'mætik]

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adj. 有魅力的

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attractive [ə'træktiv]

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adj. 有吸引力的,引起注意的

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v. 进展,进化,展开

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adj. 暴露的,无掩蔽的,暴露于风雨中的 v. 暴露,

 
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adj. 芬香的,馥郁的

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