Pollination by nocturnal L epidoptera, and the effects of light pollution: a review

CJ MacGregor, MJO Pocock, R Fox… - Ecological …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
1. Moths (L epidoptera) are the major nocturnal pollinators of flowers. However, their
importance and contribution to the provision of pollination ecosystem services may have …

Understanding intraspecific variation of floral scent in light of evolutionary ecology

R Delle-Vedove, B Schatz, M Dufay - Annals of Botany, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Among the various floral traits involved in pollinator attraction
and potentially under selection mediated by pollinators, floral scent/fragrance has been less …

Widespread selection and gene flow shape the genomic landscape during a radiation of monkeyflowers

S Stankowski, MA Chase, AM Fuiten… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Speciation genomic studies aim to interpret patterns of genome-wide variation in light of the
processes that give rise to new species. However, interpreting the genomic “landscape” of …

Flowers as Islands: Spatial Distribution of Nectar-Inhabiting Microfungi among Plants of Mimulus aurantiacus, a Hummingbird-Pollinated Shrub

M Belisle, KG Peay, T Fukami - Microbial ecology, 2012 - Springer
Microfungi that inhabit floral nectar offer unique opportunities for the study of microbial
distribution and the role that dispersal limitation may play in generating distribution patterns …

Competition for hummingbird pollination shapes flower color variation in Andean Solanaceae

N Muchhala, S Johnsen, SD Smith - Evolution, 2014 - academic.oup.com
One classic explanation for the remarkable diversity of flower colors across angiosperms
involves evolutionary shifts among different types of pollinators with different color …

Shades of red: bird‐pollinated flowers target the specific colour discrimination abilities of avian vision

M Shrestha, AG Dyer, S Boyd‐Gerny… - New …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Colour signals are a major cue in putative pollination syndromes. There is evidence that the
reflectance spectra of many flowers target the distinctive visual discrimination abilities of …

Nectar consumers

SW Nicolson - Nectaries and nectar, 2007 - Springer
Chapter 7 NECTAR CONSUMERS Page 1 Chapter 7 NECTAR CONSUMERS SUSAN W.
NICOLSON Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0002, South …

Flower color as a model system for studies of plant evo-devo

JM Sobel, MA Streisfeld - Frontiers in plant science, 2013 - frontiersin.org
Even though pigmentation traits have had substantial impacts on the field of animal
evolutionary developmental biology, they have played only relatively minor roles in plant …

Genetics and the evolution of prezygotic isolation

RM Merrill, H Arenas-Castro… - Cold Spring …, 2024 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
The significance of prezygotic isolation for speciation has been recognized at least since the
Modern Synthesis. However, fundamental questions remain. For example, how are genetic …

Introgressive hybridization facilitates adaptive divergence in a recent radiation of monkeyflowers

S Stankowski, MA Streisfeld - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
A primary goal in evolutionary biology is to identify the historical events that have facilitated
the origin and spread of adaptations. When these adaptations also lead to reproductive …