Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 14:1:36 +0800 From: Peter Cole <carnivor@flytrap.demon.co.uk> To: cp@opus.hpl.hp.com Message-Id: <aabcdefg3428$foo@default> Subject: Re: sub-carnivores
in <2320C57EE@wocn03.chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
SCHLAUER@chemie.uni-wuerzburg.de writes:
..
>_Proboscidea_ and _Ibicella_ are perhaps sub-carnivorous. They lack
>digestive enzymes but they may have mutualistic symbioses comparable
>to the better understood sub-carnivores _Roridula_ and _Byblis_.
!!!? Byblis? I thought this had passed the gelatine film test for
demonstrating enzyme secretion? Though offhand I can't remember where
I got that notion from, so I wouldn't swear by it.
Do you mean it has been demonstrated *not* to produce proteolytic enzymes?
Also do you have details of any mutualistic symbioses in this genus? It's
not something I'd noticed or considered, though of course the invertebrate
fauna of S.Wales is rather different from Australia so there's unlikely to
be any "Roridula+Pameridea"-type phenomenon going on with my plants.
Very curious,
Peter
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