Chemical ecology of deceptive pollination in Ceropegia 

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Post Doc: Dr. Annemarie Heiduk

Main collaboration partners: Dr. Irina Brake,  Prof. Dr. Steven Johnson Prof. Dr. Sigrid Liede Schumann Dr. Ulrich Meve Dr. Adam Shuttleworth, Prof. Dr. Michael v. Tschirnhaus

Heiduk, A; Brake, I; v. Tschirnhaus, M; Haenni, JP; Miller, R; Hash, J; Prieto-Benítez, S; Jürgens, A; Johnson, SD; Schulz, S; Liede-Schumann, S; Meve, U; Dötterl, S:  Floral scent and pollinators of Ceropegiatrap flower. Flora, 232, 169-182 (2017)

Meve, U; Heiduk, A; Liede-Schumann, S: Origin and early evolution of Ceropegieae (Apocynaceae-Asclepiadoideae), Systematics and Biodiversity, 15, 143-155 (2017)

Ollerton, J; Dötterl, S; Ghorpadé, K; Heiduk, A; Liede-Schumann, S; Masinde, S; Meve, U; Peter, CI; Prieto-Benítez, P; Punekar, S; Thulin, M; Whittington, A: Diversity of Diptera families that pollinate Ceropegia(Apocynaceae) trap flowers: an update in light of new data and phylogenetic analyses. Flora, 234, 233-244 (2017)

Heiduk, A; Brake, I; von Tschirnhaus, M; Göhl, M; Jürgens, A; Johnson, SD; Meve, U; Dötterl, S: Ceropegia sandersonii mimics attacked honey bees to attract kleptoparasitic flies for pollination. Current Biology, 26, 2787–2793 (2016)

Heiduk, A; Kong, H; Brake, I; von Tschirnhaus, M; Tolasch, T; Tröger, AG; Wittenberg, E; Francke, W; Meve, U; Dötterl, S: 2015. Deceptive Ceropegia dolichophyllafools its kleptoparasitic fly pollinators with exceptional floral scent. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 3:66. doi: 10.3389/fevo.2015.00066 (2015)

Heiduk, A; Brake, I; Tolasch, T; Frank, J; Jürgens, A; Meve, U; Dötterl, S: Scent chemistry and pollinator attraction in the deceptive trap flowers of Ceropegia dolichophylla, South African Journal of Botany, 76, 762-769 (2010)