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Carnivorous plants are of great evolutionary interest in their function to catch prey (mainly insects) to digest their proteins as a nitrogen source. Among them, Nepenthes species utilize pitchers which contain digestive fluid with the acid proteinase nepenthesin.
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Takahashi et al. (2007) studied this question.
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