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Author(s):  
Kyle Christie ◽  
Jonathan P Doan ◽  
Wendy C Mcbride ◽  
Sharon Y Strauss

Abstract Floral visitors influence reproductive interactions among sympatric plant species, either by facilitating assortative mating and contributing to reproductive isolation, or by promoting heterospecific pollen transfer, potentially leading to reproductive interference or hybridization. We assessed preference and constancy of floral visitors on two co-occurring jewelflowers [Streptanthus breweri and Streptanthus hesperidis (Brassicaceae)] using field arrays, and quantified two floral rewards potentially important to foraging choice – pollen production and nectar sugar concentration – in a greenhouse common garden. Floral visitors made an abundance of conspecific transitions between S. breweri individuals, which thus experienced minimal opportunities for heterospecific pollen transfer from S. hesperidis. In contrast, behavioural isolation for S. hesperidis was essentially absent due to pollinator inconstancy. This pattern emerged across multiple biotic environments and was unrelated to local density dependence. S. breweri populations that were sympatric with S. hesperidis had higher nectar sugar concentrations than their sympatric congeners, as well as allopatric conspecifics. Previous work shows that S. breweri suffers a greater cost to hybridization than S. hesperidis, and here we find that it also shows asymmetrical floral isolation and floral trait displacement in sympatry. These findings suggest that trait divergence may reduce negative reproductive interactions between sympatric but genetically incompatible relatives.


PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 157 ◽  
pp. 121-135
Author(s):  
Shao-Jun Ling ◽  
Shu-Ping Guan ◽  
Fang Wen ◽  
Yu-Min Shui ◽  
Ming-Xun Ren

A new species of Gesneriaceae, Oreocharis jasminina S.J.Ling, F.Wen & M.X. Ren from Hainan Island, south China, is highlighted and described. The new species is distinguished by its actinomorphic corolla, narrow floral tube and ovate anthers hidden in the floral tube. The new species also showed clear geographic and altitudinal isolation from the three currently-recognised Oreocharis species on the Island. Molecular phylogenetic analysis, based on nuclear ITS1/2 and plastid trnL-trnF sequences, supported the delimitation of the new species, which forms a single lineage with all the other Oreocharis species from Hainan Island. The roles of geographic and floral isolation in the evolution of the new species and its affinities are discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 481-497 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ethan J. Temeles ◽  
Jia Liang ◽  
Molly C. Levy ◽  
Yong-Li Fan
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2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Sun ◽  
P. M. Schlüter ◽  
K. Gross ◽  
F. P. Schiestl

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuqing Xu ◽  
Philipp M. Schlüter ◽  
Florian P. Schiestl

Pollinator-mediated selection has been suggested to play a major role for the origin and maintenance of the species diversity in orchids. Sexually deceptive orchids are one of the prime examples for rapid, pollinator-mediated plant radiations, with many species showing little genetic differentiation, lack of postzygotic barriers, but strong prezygotic reproductive isolation. These orchids mimic mating signals of female insects and employ male insects as pollinators. This kind of sexual mimicry leads to highly specialised pollination and provides a good system for investigating the process of pollinator-driven speciation. Here, we summarise the knowledge of key processes of speciation in this group of orchids and conduct a meta-analysis on traits that contribute to species differentiation, and thus potentially to speciation. Our study suggests that pollinator shift through changes in floral scent is predominant among closely related species in sexually deceptive orchids. Such shifts can provide a mechanism for pollinator-driven speciation in plants, if the resulting floral isolation is strong. Furthermore, changes in floral scent in these orchids are likely controlled by few genes. Together these factors suggest speciation in sexually deceptive orchids may happen rapidly and even in sympatry, which may explain the remarkable species diversity observed in this plant group.


Evolution ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (9) ◽  
pp. 2606-2620 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shuqing Xu ◽  
Philipp M. Schlüter ◽  
Giovanni Scopece ◽  
Hendrik Breitkopf ◽  
Karin Gross ◽  
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