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bladderwort

(blăd`ərwûrt', –wôrt'), any plant of the genus Utricularia, insectivorous or carnivorous aquatic plants, many native to North America. Small animals are caught and digested in bladderlike organs of the finely divided submerged leaves. Bladderworts and similar related genera are an important element of aquatic and marsh flora on all continents. They are sometimes grown in aquariums as curiosities. Bladderworts are classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Scrophulariales, family Lentibulariaceae.

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Pereztorres et al., "Transcriptomics and molecular evolutionary rate analysis of the bladderwort (Utricularia), a carnivorous plant with a minimal genome," BMC Plant Biology, vol.

Aquatic Plant Genomics: Advances, Applications, and Prospects

Food composition of aquatic bladderworts (Utricularia, Lentibulariaceae) in various habitats.

Captura y selectividad del zooplancton por Utricularia foliosa (Lentibulariaceae) en la Cienaga de Paredes, Santander, Colombia

That is, at three distinct times in the course of its evolution, the bladderwort's genome doubled in size, with offspring receiving two full copies of the species' entire genome.

Carnivorous Plant Throws Out 'Junk' DNA

The scientists said that it seems that the plant has been busy deleting noncoding "junk" DNA from its genetic material over many generations, which may explain differences between bladderworts and junk-heavy species like corn and tobacco - and humans.

'Junk' DNA may not be needed for building of complex life

Scientists, including the famous naturalist Charles Darwin, have marveled at the bladderwort's traps for more than 100 years.

Carnivorous plants say 'cheese'

Unexpectedly, at the lowest nitrogen level, trapping of Euglena depressed plant growth, apparently because it competed with the bladderwort for nitrogen under these conditions -- the prey here acting as a parasite.

Feed the plant meat

Obligatory tedium began with unregulated steward calcification of the most horrid sort; pleasantries aside, shimmying along amnesia's inner membrane wasn't so much like Yahweh's clattering as one might not have thought had one not been cleansed by the temptress of bladderwort confusion.

Elephantine data mist

By the photos on a Northwest Ontario website, I positively identified our nemeses: milfoil, horsetail, bladderwort, bulrush, arrowhead, and duckweed.

Wacky weed walleyes

Rootless and adrift in its wetland habitat, the humped bladderwort (Utricularia gibba) preys on water fleas and other small invertebrates.

Bladderwort opens wide

On its southern shore is a fen, where visitors can find cranberries and insect-eating plants such as sundew, pitcher plant and bladderwort.

A great watchable wildlife site

Pond-dwelling bladderwort Giant water lily The Palm House at Kew Titan arum at Kew Stunning orchid

DAVID D ATTENBOROUGH; On how you'll never look at your garden plants in the same way again.

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