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References:
[1] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Insectivorous_Plants/rxwqAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1
[2] https://www.nwf.org/Educational-Resources/Wildlife-Guide/Plants-and-Fungi/Venus-Flytrap
[3] https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/the-pressure-sensor-of-the-venus-flytrap/
[4] https://www.pnas.org/content/117/27/16035
[5] https://www.nibb.ac.jp/en/press/2020/10/06.html
[6] https://www.the-scientist.com/the-literature/what-makes-a-venus-flytrap-snap-67151
[7] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993016/#table-2fn1
[8] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11432920/
[9] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982220305674
[10] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2018.0012
[11] https://www.uvm.edu/~ngotelli/manuscriptpdfs/EllisonGotelliJEB2009.pdf
[12] https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.14879