Synthesis and scope of the role of postmating prezygotic isolation in speciation

MD Garlovsky, E Whittington… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
How barriers to gene flow arise and are maintained are key questions in evolutionary
biology. Speciation research has mainly focused on barriers that occur either before mating …

Reproductive strategies of animal‐pollinated plants on high mountains: A review of studies from the “Third Pole”

ZY Tong, LY Wu, SQ Huang - Journal of Systematics and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Having hundreds of big mountains, the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and its southern boundary,
the Hengduan Mountains Region, represent one of the world's biodiversity hotspots. In the …

Global patterns and drivers of buzzing bees and poricidal plants

AL Russell, SL Buchmann, JS Ascher, Z Wang… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
Foraging behavior frequently plays a major role in driving the geographic distribution of
animals. Buzzing to extract protein-rich pollen from flowers is a key foraging behavior used …

Bimodal activity of diurnal flower visitation at high elevation

X Xu, ZX Ren, J Trunschke, J Kuppler… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Successful pollination in animal‐pollinated plants depends on the temporal overlap
between flower presentation and pollinator foraging activity. Variation in the temporal …

Pollinator and floral odor specificity among four synchronopatric species of Ceropegia (Apocynaceae) suggests ethological isolation that prevents reproductive …

A Kidyoo, M Kidyoo, D McKey, M Proffit… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Possession of flowers that trap fly pollinators is a conservative trait within the genus
Ceropegia, in which pollination systems can be generalized or highly specialized. However …

Evolutionary and ecological factors structure a plant–bumblebee network in a biodiversity hotspot, the Himalaya–Hengduan Mountains

H Liang, YH Zhao, NE Rafferty, ZX Ren… - Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Species interactions, such as those between plants and pollinators, are known to be shaped
by both evolutionary history and ecological factors. However, little is known about how …

False-colour photography: a novel digital approach to visualize the bee view of flowers

C Verhoeven, ZX Ren, K Lunau - Journal of Pollination …, 2018 - pollinationecology.org
The colour vision system of bees and humans differs mainly in that, contrary to humans,
bees are sensitive to ultraviolet light and insensitive to red light. The synopsis of a colour …

The reproductive isolation mechanism of allopatric sister species Iris dichotoma and I. domestica (Iridaceae) under the sympatric condition

J Gao, W Cai, W Li, Y Zheng, X Bi - Scientia Horticulturae, 2023 - Elsevier
In allopatric species, the geographical isolation is generally disregarded as a legitimate
cause of isolation. Beside geographical isolation, the other prezygotic isolating mechanisms …

Reproductive Isolation Among Three Nocturnal Moth-Pollinated Sympatric Habenaria Species (Orchidaceae)

HP Zhang, ZB Tao, J Trunschke, M Shrestha… - Frontiers in Plant …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Comparison and quantification of multiple pre-and post-pollination barriers to interspecific
hybridization are important to understand the factors promoting reproductive isolation. Such …

Microhabitat and Pollinator Differentiation Drive Reproductive Isolation between Two Sympatric Salvia Species (Lamiaceae)

TC Ling, P Phokasem, C Sinpoo, YP Yang… - Plants, 2022 - mdpi.com
Evaluation of multiple barriers contributing to reproductive isolation between sympatric plant
species is key to understanding the mechanism of their coexistence; however, such …