How the switch to hummingbird pollination has greatly contributed to our understanding of evolutionary processes

CA Wessinger - New Phytologist, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary switch to hummingbird pollination exemplifies complex adaptation,
requiring evolutionary change in multiple component traits. Despite this complexity, diverse …

Genomic approaches are improving taxonomic representation in genetic studies of speciation

K Delmore, H Justen, KM Kay… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Until recently, our understanding of the genetics of speciation was limited to a narrow group
of model species with a specific set of characteristics that made genetic analysis feasible …

Ecological diversification in an adaptive radiation of plants: the role of de novo mutation and introgression

BW Stone, CA Wessinger - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive radiations are characterized by rapid ecological diversification and speciation
events, leading to fuzzy species boundaries between ecologically differentiated species …

Adaptive generalization in pollination systems: Hawkmoths increase fitness to long‐tubed flowers, but secondary pollinators remain important

KE Wenzell, JY Zhang, KA Skogen… - Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Selection on floral traits by animal pollinators is important in the evolution of flowering plants,
yet whether floral divergence requires specialized pollination remains uncertain. Longer …

A multiscale approach to understanding the shared blue-orange flower color polymorphism in two Lysimachia species

M Sánchez-Cabrera, E Narbona, M Arista, PL Ortiz… - BMC Plant …, 2024 - Springer
Background Polymorphisms are common in nature, but they are rarely shared among
closely related species. Polymorphisms could originate through convergence, ancestral …

Can a flower color ancestral polymorphism transcend speciation?

M Sánchez-Cabrera, E Narbona, M Arista, PL Ortiz… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Polymorphisms are common in nature, but they are rarely shared among closely related
species. They could originate through convergence, ancestral polymorphism, or …

[HTML][HTML] Phylogenomic insights into Neotropical Magnolia relationships

FAA Núñez, S Guzmán-Díaz, E Veltjen, P Asselman… - Heliyon, 2024 - cell.com
Despite extensive research into the phylogenetic relationships of the genus Magnolia,
Neotropical taxa have been neglected. This is partly because their numbers have recently …

The genomic outcomes of hybridization vary over time within a monkeyflower radiation

AW Short, MA Streisfeld - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The accumulation of genetic differences through time can lead to reproductive isolation
between populations and the origin of new species. However, hybridization between …

Genetic structure of interspecific hybridization between the long corolla tube species, Isodon longitubus, and its short corolla tube congener, I. inflexus

T Yamashiro, A Yamashiro, I Dohzono… - Plant Systematics and …, 2024 - Springer
Interspecific hybridization between the short (ca. 3.5 mm) corolla tube species, Isodon
inflexus, and the long (ca. 12 mm) corolla tube species, Isodon longitubus, was examined …