A missing link: Connecting plant and pollinator population structure
A missing link: Connecting plant and pollinator population structure
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缺失的环节:连接植物和传粉媒介种群结构
DOI:
10.1002/ajb2.1844
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
3
通讯作者:
Hopkins, Robin
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作者:
Burgin, Grace;Hopkins, Robin
A tremendous amount of empirical evidence emphasizes the significance of plant-1 pollinator interactions in flowering plant evolution. For example, there are numerous cases of 2 associations between floral traits and diversification rate, and parallel evolution of floral 3 character combinations in unrelated groups that use similar pollinator types (Kay and Sargent, 4 2009). These macroevolutionary patterns highlight pollinators as selective agents driving floral 5 trait variation, reproductive isolation, and diversification. However, the role of pollinators is even 6 more fundamental to the plant life cycle than this adaptative framework might suggest–7 pollinators are key dispersal agents. 8Many plants rely on external vectors for pollen and seed dispersal. Data suggest that 9 dispersal via seed is often limited, particularly among plants without adaptations for long-10 distance seed dispersal (Ennos, 1994). Therefore, the movement of pollen via pollinators 11 represents a significant mechanism through which alleles move across the landscape (Sork and 12 Smouse, 2006; Browne and Karubian, 2018). One theoretical model emerging from the plant 13 speciation literature explicitly reframes the role of pollinators in plant evolution to include non-14 adaptive demographic processes like dispersal and gene flow (Loveless and Hamrick, 1984; 15 Wessinger, 2021). This so-called ‘pollen-dispersal dependent speciation hyp 16 that plants have evolved suites of traits that enhance reproduction using a specific pollinator 17 type. As plants adapt to optimize reproduction using particular pollinators (eg bees versus 18 hummingbirds), they also commit to the patterns of pollen-mediated gene flow driven by their 19 pollinator’s movement behaviors. For example, highly mobi 20