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Campbell DR, Powers JM, Crowell M. Pollinator and habitat-mediated selection as potential contributors to ecological speciation in two closely related species. Evol Lett 2024; 8:311-321. [PMID: 38525033 PMCID: PMC10959478 DOI: 10.1093/evlett/qrad060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2023] [Revised: 10/27/2023] [Accepted: 11/09/2023] [Indexed: 03/26/2024] Open
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In ecological speciation, incipient species diverge due to natural selection that is ecologically based. In flowering plants, different pollinators could mediate that selection (pollinator-mediated divergent selection) or other features of the environment that differ between habitats of 2 species could do so (environment-mediated divergent selection). Although these mechanisms are well understood, they have received little rigorous testing, as few studies of divergent selection across sites of closely related species include both floral traits that influence pollination and vegetative traits that influence survival. This study employed common gardens in sites of the 2 parental species and a hybrid site, each containing advanced generation hybrids along with the parental species, to test these forms of ecological speciation in plants of the genus Ipomopsis. A total of 3 vegetative traits (specific leaf area, leaf trichomes, and photosynthetic water-use efficiency) and 5 floral traits (corolla length and width, anther insertion, petal color, and nectar production) were analyzed for impacts on fitness components (survival to flowering and seeds per flower, respectively). These traits exhibited strong clines across the elevational gradient in the hybrid zone, with narrower clines in theory reflecting stronger selection or higher genetic variance. Plants with long corollas and inserted anthers had higher seeds per flower at the Ipomopsis tenuituba site, whereas selection favored the reverse condition at the Ipomopsis aggregata site, a signature of divergent selection. In contrast, no divergent selection due to variation in survival was detected on any vegetative trait. Selection within the hybrid zone most closely resembled selection within the I. aggregata site. Across traits, the strength of divergent selection was not significantly correlated with width of the cline, which was better predicted by evolvability (standardized genetic variance). These results support the role of pollinator-mediated divergent selection in ecological speciation and illustrate the importance of genetic variance in determining divergence across hybrid zones.
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Affiliation(s)
- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, United States
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, United States
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, United States
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Wu C, Powers JM, Hopp DZ, Campbell DR. Effects of experimental warming on floral scent, display, and rewards in two subalpine herbs. Ann Bot 2023:mcad195. [PMID: 38141245 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcad195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2023] [Indexed: 12/25/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Floral volatiles, visual traits, and rewards mediate attraction and defense in plant-pollinator and plant-herbivore interactions, but these floral traits may be altered by global warming through direct effects of temperature or longer term impacts on plant resources. We examined the effect of warming on floral and leaf volatile emissions, floral morphology, plant height, nectar production, and oviposition by seed predators. METHODS We used open-top chambers that warmed plants in the field +2-3 °C on average (+6-11 °C increase in daily maxima) for 2-4 weeks across 1-3 years at 3 sites in Colorado, USA. Volatiles were sampled from two closely related species of subalpine Ipomopsis with different pollinators: I. aggregata ssp. aggregata, visited mainly by hummingbirds, and I. tenuituba ssp. tenuituba, often visited by hawkmoths. KEY RESULTS While warming had no detected effects on leaf volatiles, the daytime floral volatiles of both I. aggregata and I. tenuituba responded in subtle ways to warming, with impacts that depended on the species, site, and year. In addition to the long-term effect of warming, temperature at the time of sampling independently affected the floral volatile emissions of I. aggregata during the day and I. tenuituba at night. Warming had little effect on floral morphology for either species, and no effect on nectar concentration, maximum inflorescence height, or flower redness in I. aggregata. However, warming increased nectar production in I. aggregata by 41%, a response that would attract more hummingbird visits, and reduced oviposition by fly seed predators by at least 72%. CONCLUSIONS Our results suggest that floral traits can show different levels of plasticity to temperature changes in subalpine environments, with potential effects on animal behaviors that help or hinder plant reproduction. They also illustrate the need for more long-term field warming studies, as shown by responses of floral volatiles in different ways to weeks of warming versus temperature at the time of sampling.
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- Carrie Wu
- Department of Biology, University of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
- Department of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Western Colorado University, Gunnison, CO, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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Campbell DR, Raguso RA, Midzik M, Bischoff M, Broadhead GT. Genetic and spatial variation in vegetative and floral traits across a hybrid zone. Am J Bot 2022; 109:1780-1793. [PMID: 36193908 PMCID: PMC9828138 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2022] [Revised: 06/14/2022] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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PREMISE Genetic variation influences the potential for evolution to rescue populations from impacts of environmental change. Most studies of genetic variation in fitness-related traits focus on either vegetative or floral traits, with few on floral scent. How vegetative and floral traits compare in potential for adaptive evolution is poorly understood. METHODS We measured variation across source populations, planting sites, and genetic families for vegetative and floral traits in a hybrid zone. Seeds from families of Ipomopsis aggregata, I. tenuituba, and F1 and F2 hybrids of the two species were planted into three common gardens. Measured traits included specific leaf area (SLA), trichomes, water-use efficiency (WUE), floral morphology, petal color, nectar, and floral volatiles. RESULTS Vegetative traits SLA and WUE varied greatly among planting sites, while showing weak or no genetic variation among source populations. Specific leaf area and trichomes responded plastically to snowmelt date, and SLA exhibited within-population genetic variation. All aspects of floral morphology varied genetically among source populations, and corolla length, corolla width, and sepal width varied genetically within populations. Heritability was not detected for volatiles due to high environmental variation, although one terpene had high evolvability, and high emission of two terpenes, a class of compounds emitted more strongly from the calyx than the corolla, correlated genetically with sepal width. Environmental variation across sites was weak for floral morphology and stronger for volatiles and vegetative traits. The inheritance of three of four volatiles departed from additive. CONCLUSIONS Results indicate stronger genetic potential for evolutionary responses to selection in floral morphology compared with scent and vegetative traits and suggest potentially adaptive plasticity in some vegetative traits.
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryCrested ButteCO81224USA
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- Department of Neurobiology and BehaviorCornell UniversityIthacaNY14853USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryCrested ButteCO81224USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological LaboratoryCrested ButteCO81224USA
- Department of Neurobiology and BehaviorCornell UniversityIthacaNY14853USA
- Environmental Research Institute, North Highland CollegeCastle StreetThursoKW14 7JDUK
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Campbell DR, Sakai AK, Weller SG, Culley TM, Dunbar‐Wallis AK, Andres AM, Wong TG, Dang T, Au B, Ku M, Marcantonio AR, Ngo PJ, Nguyen AA, Tran MH, Tran Q. Genetic potential for changes in breeding systems: Predicted and observed trait changes during artificial selection for male and female allocation in a gynodioecious species. Am J Bot 2022; 109:1918-1938. [PMID: 36380502 PMCID: PMC9828115 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.16096] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/15/2022] [Revised: 09/08/2022] [Accepted: 09/08/2022] [Indexed: 06/16/2023]
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PREMISE Evolution of separate sexes from hermaphroditism often proceeds through gynodioecy, but genetic constraints on this process are poorly understood. Genetic (co-)variances and between-sex genetic correlations were used to predict evolutionary responses of multiple reproductive traits in a sexually dimorphic gynodioecious species, and predictions were compared with observed responses to artificial selection. METHODS Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae) is an endemic Hawaiian lineage with hermaphroditic, gynodioecious, subdioecious, and dioecious species. We measured genetic parameters of Schiedea salicaria and used them to predict evolutionary responses of 18 traits in hermaphrodites and females in response to artificial selection for increased male (stamen) biomass in hermaphrodites or increased female (carpel, capsule) biomass in females. Observed responses over two generations were compared with predictions in replicate lines of treatments and controls. RESULTS In only two generations, both stamen biomass in hermaphrodites and female biomass in females responded markedly to direct selection, supporting a key assumption of models for evolution of dioecy. Other biomass traits, pollen and ovule numbers, and inflorescence characters important in wind pollination evolved indirectly in response to selection on sex allocation. Responses generally followed predictions from multivariate selection models, with some responses unexpectedly large due to increased genetic correlations as selection proceeded. CONCLUSIONS Results illustrate the power of artificial selection and utility of multivariate selection models incorporating sex differences. They further indicate that pollen and ovule numbers and inflorescence architecture could evolve in response to selection on biomass allocation to male versus female function, producing complex changes in plant phenotype as separate sexes evolve.
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
- Department of Biological SciencesUniversity of CincinnatiCincinnatiOH45221USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of ColoradoBoulderCO80309USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
- Department of Gastroenterology and HepatologyKaiser Permanente WashingtonSeattleWA98112USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of CaliforniaIrvineCA92697USA
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Eisen KE, Powers JM, Raguso RA, Campbell DR. An analytical pipeline to support robust research on the ecology, evolution, and function of floral volatiles. Front Ecol Evol 2022. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.1006416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Research on floral volatiles has grown substantially in the last 20 years, which has generated insights into their diversity and prevalence. These studies have paved the way for new research that explores the evolutionary origins and ecological consequences of different types of variation in floral scent, including community-level, functional, and environmentally induced variation. However, to address these types of questions, novel approaches are needed that can handle large sample sizes, provide quality control measures, and make volatile research more transparent and accessible, particularly for scientists without prior experience in this field. Drawing upon a literature review and our own experiences, we present a set of best practices for next-generation research in floral scent. We outline methods for data collection (experimental designs, methods for conducting field collections, analytical chemistry, compound identification) and data analysis (statistical analysis, database integration) that will facilitate the generation and interpretation of quality data. For the intermediate step of data processing, we created the R package bouquet, which provides a data analysis pipeline. The package contains functions that enable users to convert chromatographic peak integrations to a filtered data table that can be used in subsequent statistical analyses. This package includes default settings for filtering out non-floral compounds, including background contamination, based on our best-practice guidelines, but functions and workflows can be easily customized as necessary. Next-generation research into the ecology and evolution of floral scent has the potential to generate broadly relevant insights into how complex traits evolve, their genomic architecture, and their consequences for ecological interactions. In order to fulfill this potential, the methodology of floral scent studies needs to become more transparent and reproducible. By outlining best practices throughout the lifecycle of a project, from experimental design to statistical analysis, and providing an R package that standardizes the data processing pipeline, we provide a resource for new and seasoned researchers in this field and in adjacent fields, where high-throughput and multi-dimensional datasets are common.
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Navarro J, Powers JM, Paul A, Campbell DR. Phenotypic plasticity and selection on leaf traits in response to snowmelt timing and summer precipitation. New Phytol 2022; 234:1477-1490. [PMID: 35274312 DOI: 10.1111/nph.18084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2021] [Accepted: 02/09/2022] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Vegetative traits of plants can respond directly to changes in the environment, such as those occurring under climate change. That phenotypic plasticity could be adaptive, maladaptive, or neutral. We manipulated the timing of spring snowmelt and amount of summer precipitation in factorial combination and examined responses of specific leaf area (SLA), trichome density, leaf water content (LWC), photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance and intrinsic water-use efficiency (iWUE) in the subalpine herb Ipomopsis aggregata. The experiment was repeated in three years differing in natural timing of snowmelt. To examine natural selection, we used survival, relative growth rate, and flowering as fitness indices. A 50% reduction in summer precipitation reduced stomatal conductance and increased iWUE, and doubled precipitation increased LWC. Combining natural and experimental variation, earlier snowmelt reduced soil moisture, photosynthetic rate and stomatal conductance, and increased trichome density and iWUE. Precipitation reduction reversed the mortality selection favoring high stomatal conductance under normal and doubled precipitation, and higher LWC improved growth. Earlier snowmelt is a strong signal of climate change and can change expression of leaf morphology and gas exchange traits, just as reduced precipitation can. Stomatal conductance and SLA showed adaptive plasticity under some conditions.
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- Jocelyn Navarro
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, PO Box 210088, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, 8000 County Road 317, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, 8000 County Road 317, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, 8000 County Road 317, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, USA
- Department of Biology, Colorado State University, 1878 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
- Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology, Colorado State University, 1474 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, 8000 County Road 317, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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Campbell DR, Bischoff M, Raguso RA, Briggs HM, Sosenski P. Selection of Floral Traits by Pollinators and Seed Predators during Sequential Life History Stages. Am Nat 2022; 199:808-823. [DOI: 10.1086/716740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92617
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado 81224
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado 81224
- Environmental Research Institute, North Highland College, Castle Street, Thurso KW14 7JD, United Kingdom
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92617
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado 81224
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92617
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado 81224
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT)–Departamento de Ecología Tropical, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
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Powers JM, Sakai AK, Weller SG, Campbell DR. Variation in floral volatiles across time, sexes, and populations of wind-pollinated Schiedea globosa. Am J Bot 2022; 109:345-360. [PMID: 35192727 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2021] [Revised: 11/16/2021] [Accepted: 11/23/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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PREMISE Floral scent is a key aspect of plant reproduction, but its intraspecific variation at multiple scales is poorly understood. Sexual dimorphism and temporal regulation of scent can be shaped by evolution, and interpopulation variation may be a bridge to species differences. We tested whether intraspecific chemical diversity in a wind-pollinated species where selection from biotic pollination is absent is associated with genetic divergence across the Hawaiian archipelago. METHODS Floral volatiles from females, males, and hermaphrodites of subdioecious Schiedea globosa grown in a common environment from 12 populations were sampled day and night and analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Variation among groups was analyzed by constrained ordination. We also examined the relationships of scent dissimilarity to geographic and genetic distance between populations. RESULTS Flowers increased total emissions at night through higher emissions of several ketones, oximes, and phenylacetaldehyde. Females emitted less total scent per flower at night but more of some aliphatic compounds than males, and males emitted more ketones and aldoximes. Scent differed among populations during day and night. Divergence in scent produced at night increased with geographic distance within 70-100 km and increased with genetic distance for males during the day and night, but not for females. CONCLUSIONS Schiedea globosa exhibits diel and sex-based variation in floral scent despite wind pollination and presumed loss of biotic pollination. In males, interpopulation scent differences are correlated with genetic differences, suggesting that scent evolved with dispersal within and across islands.
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- John M Powers
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697, USA
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Powers JM, Briggs HM, Dickson RG, Li X, Campbell DR. Earlier snow melt and reduced summer precipitation alter floral traits important to pollination. Glob Chang Biol 2022; 28:323-339. [PMID: 34582609 DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 09/14/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Climate change can cause changes in expression of organismal traits that influence fitness. In flowering plants, floral traits can respond to drought, and that phenotypic plasticity has the potential to affect pollination and plant reproductive success. Global climate change is leading to earlier snow melt in snow-dominated ecosystems as well as affecting precipitation during the growing season, but the effects of snow melt timing on floral morphology and rewards remain unknown. We conducted crossed manipulations of spring snow melt timing (early vs. control) and summer monsoon precipitation (addition, control, and reduction) that mimicked recent natural variation, and examined plastic responses in floral traits of Ipomopsis aggregata over 3 years in the Rocky Mountains. We tested whether increased summer precipitation compensated for earlier snow melt, and if plasticity was associated with changes in soil moisture and/or leaf gas exchange. Lower summer precipitation decreased corolla length, style length, corolla width, sepal width, and nectar production, and increased nectar concentration. Earlier snow melt (taking into account natural and experimental variation) had the same effects on those traits and decreased inflorescence height. The effect of reduced summer precipitation was stronger in earlier snow melt years for corolla length and sepal width. Trait reductions were explained by drier soil during the flowering period, but this effect was only partially explained by how drier soils affected plant water stress, as measured by leaf gas exchange. We predicted the effects of plastic trait changes on pollinator visitation rates, pollination success, and seed production using prior studies on I. aggregata. The largest predicted effect of drier soil on relative fitness components via plasticity was a decrease in male fitness caused by reduced pollinator rewards (nectar production). Early snow melt and reduced precipitation are strong drivers of phenotypic plasticity, and both should be considered when predicting effects of climate change on plant traits in snow-dominated ecosystems.
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- John M Powers
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, USA
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Recart W, Campbell DR. Water availability affects the relationship between pollen intensity and seed production. AoB Plants 2021; 13:plab074. [PMID: 34987746 PMCID: PMC8711293 DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plab074] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2021] [Accepted: 11/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Seed production can be affected by water availability and also depend on the amount (pollen intensity) and quality of pollen deposited. The way pollen receipt on the stigma translates into seeds produced follows that of a saturating dose-response. Not only can water availability and pollen intensity each influence seed production, these factors could interact in their effects on seed production. Changes to the relationship between seed production and pollen intensity can in turn influence pollinator effectiveness and pollinator-mediated selection. We asked how water availability affected indices of plant fitness (seed set, fruit set and seed mass) and the relationship between pollen intensity and seed production in Phacelia parryi. We conducted a greenhouse experiment where we manipulated water availability (either high- or low-water) to pollen recipient plants and hand-pollinated each plant with a range of pollen intensities. We conducted 703 hand-pollinations on 30 plants. For each hand-pollinated flower we measured pollen deposited, seed production and seed mass. We then generated a piecewise regression of the relationship between pollen intensity and seed production, and determined average effects of water on plant fitness measures. This experiment was paired with a field observational study aimed to document natural variation in pollen deposition. Average seed production per fruit was 21 % higher in the high-watered plants. The relationship between pollen intensity and seed production differed between the two water treatments. Plants under high-water exhibited a wider range in which pollen deposition increased seed production. Average natural pollen intensities fell within different regions of the piecewise regression for low- and high-water plants. Water availability can alter the efficiency by which pollen received is translated into seeds produced. Our greenhouse data suggest that only under certain pollen intensity environments will water availability affect how pollen received is translated into seeds produced.
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- Wilnelia Recart
- Department of Biology, University of San Diego, 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697-2525, USA
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Gallagher MK, Campbell DR. Experimental Test of the Combined Effects of Water Availability and Flowering Time on Pollinator Visitation and Seed Set. Front Ecol Evol 2021. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2021.641693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Climate change is likely to alter both flowering phenology and water availability for plants. Either of these changes alone can affect pollinator visitation and plant reproductive success. The relative impacts of phenology and water, and whether they interact in their impacts on plant reproductive success remain, however, largely unexplored. We manipulated flowering phenology and soil moisture in a factorial experiment with the subalpine perennial Mertensia ciliata (Boraginaceae). We examined responses of floral traits, floral abundance, pollinator visitation, and composition of visits by bumblebees vs. other pollinators. To determine the net effects on plant reproductive success, we also measured seed production and seed mass. Reduced water led to shorter, narrower flowers that produced less nectar. Late flowering plants produced fewer and shorter flowers. Both flowering phenology and water availability influenced pollination and reproductive success. Differences in flowering phenology had greater effects on pollinator visitation than did changes in water availability, but the reverse was true for seed production and mass, which were enhanced by greater water availability. The probability of receiving a flower visit declined over the season, coinciding with a decline in floral abundance in the arrays. Among plants receiving visits, both the visitation rate and percent of non-bumblebee visitors declined after the first week and remained low until the final week. We detected interactions of phenology and water on pollinator visitor composition, in which plants subject to drought were the only group to experience a late-season resurgence in visits by solitary bees and flies. Despite that interaction, net reproductive success measured as seed production responded additively to the two manipulations of water and phenology. Commonly observed declines in flower size and reward due to drought or shifts in phenology may not necessarily result in reduced plant reproductive success, which in M. ciliata responded more directly to water availability. The results highlight the need to go beyond studying single responses to climate changes, such as either phenology of a single species or how it experiences an abiotic factor, in order to understand how climate change may affect plant reproductive success.
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Powers JM, Seco R, Faiola CL, Sakai AK, Weller SG, Campbell DR, Guenther A. Floral Scent Composition and Fine-Scale Timing in Two Moth-Pollinated Hawaiian Schiedea (Caryophyllaceae). Front Plant Sci 2020; 11:1116. [PMID: 32793267 PMCID: PMC7385411 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2020.01116] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2020] [Accepted: 07/06/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Floral scent often intensifies during periods of pollinator activity, but the degree of this synchrony may vary among scent compounds depending on their function. Related plant species with the same pollinator may exhibit similar timing and composition of floral scent. We compared timing and composition of floral volatiles for two endemic Hawaiian plant species, Schiedea kaalae and S. hookeri (Caryophyllaceae). For S. kaalae, we also compared the daily timing of emission of floral volatiles to evening visits of their shared pollinator, an endemic Hawaiian moth (Pseudoschrankia brevipalpis; Erebidae). The identity and amount of floral volatiles were measured in the greenhouse during day and evening periods with dynamic headspace sampling and GC-MS (gas chromatography - mass spectrometry). The timing of emissions (daily rise, peak, and fall) was measured by sampling continuously for multiple days in a growth chamber with PTR-MS (proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry). Nearly all volatiles detected underwent strong daily cycles in emission. Timings of floral volatile emissions were similar for S. kaalae and S. hookeri, as expected for two species sharing the same pollinator. For S. kaalae, many volatiles known to attract moths, including several linalool oxides and 2-phenylacetaldehyde, peaked within 2 h of the peak visitation time of the moth which pollinates both species. Floral volatiles of both species that peaked in the evening were also emitted several hours before and after the brief window of pollinator activity. Few volatiles followed a daytime emission pattern, consistent with increased apparency to visitors only at night. The scent blends of the two species differed in their major components and were most distinct from each other in the evening. The qualitative difference in evening scent composition between the two Schiedea species may reflect their distinct evolutionary history and may indicate that the moth species uses several different floral cues to locate rewards.
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- John M. Powers
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- Terrestrial Ecology Section, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Center for Permafrost (CENPERM), Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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- Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA, United States
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Gallagher MK, Campbell DR. Pollinator visitation rate and effectiveness vary with flowering phenology. Am J Bot 2020; 107:445-455. [PMID: 32086803 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 12/30/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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PREMISE Flowering time may influence pollination success and seed set through a variety of mechanisms, including seasonal changes in total pollinator visitation or the composition and effectiveness of pollinator visitors. METHODS We investigated mechanisms by which changes in flowering phenology influence pollination and reproductive success of Mertensia ciliata (Boraginaceae). We manipulated flowering onset of potted plants and assessed the frequency and composition of pollinator visitors, as well as seed set. We tested whether floral visitors differed in their effectiveness as pollinators by measuring pollen receipt and seed set resulting from single visits to virgin flowers. RESULTS Despite a five-fold decrease in pollinator visitation over four weeks, we detected no significant difference in seed set among plants blooming at different times. On a per-visit basis, each bumblebee transferred more conspecific pollen than did a solitary bee or a fly. The proportion of visits by bumblebees increased over the season, countering the decrease in visitation rate so that flowering time had little net effect on seed set. CONCLUSIONS This work illustrates the need to consider pollinator effectiveness, along with changes in pollinator visitation and species composition to understand the mechanisms by which phenology affects levels of pollination.
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- M Kate Gallagher
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
- The Botanical Garden, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
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Recart W, Ottoson B, Campbell DR. Water influences how seed production responds to conspecific and heterospecific pollen. Am J Bot 2019; 106:713-721. [PMID: 31002744 DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1273] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2018] [Accepted: 02/08/2019] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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PREMISE Outcrossing species depend on pollen from conspecific individuals that may not be exposed to the same abiotic conditions as maternal plants. Additionally, many flowers receive heterospecific pollen, which can also influence seed production. Studies aimed to understand how abiotic conditions influence seed production tend to focus on maternal conditions and leave unexplored the effect of abiotic conditions experienced by pollen donors. We tested how water availability to pollen donors, both conspecific and heterospecific, influenced the seed production of recipient plants exposed to different water availability regimes. METHODS In a greenhouse setting we manipulated the water availability (low- or high-water treatment) to potted recipient plants (Phacelia parryi), to conspecific pollen donors, and to heterospecific pollen donors (Brassica nigra). We hand pollinated recipient plants with different pollen mixes that represented all combinations of conspecific pollen mixed with heterospecific pollen. From these hand pollinations we determined the amount of pollen that was transferred, pollen volume, pollen shape, and seed production. RESULTS Higher water availability to conspecific pollen donors led to higher seed production. Under low water availability to heterospecific pollen donors, seed production was unaffected by recipient or conspecific pollen donor treatment. Under high water availability to heterospecific pollen donors, seed production was highest when conspecific pollen donors and pollen recipients also received the high-water treatment. CONCLUSIONS Environmental conditions of pollen donors can influence the seed production of maternal plants. These results illustrate potential impacts of environmental heterogeneity on post-pollination events that lead to seed production and thus impact a pollinator's contribution to plant fitness.
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- Wilnelia Recart
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697-2525, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697-2525, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, California, 92697-2525, USA
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Campbell DR, Sosenski P, Raguso RA. Phenotypic plasticity of floral volatiles in response to increasing drought stress. Ann Bot 2019; 123:601-610. [PMID: 30364929 PMCID: PMC6417471 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy193] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2018] [Accepted: 10/04/2018] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Flowers emit a wide range of volatile compounds which can be critically important to interactions with pollinators or herbivores. Yet most studies of how the environment influences plant volatiles focus on leaf emissions, with little known about abiotic sources of variation in floral volatiles. Understanding phenotypic plasticity in floral volatile emissions has become increasingly important with globally increasing temperatures and changes in drought frequency and severity. Here quantitative relationships of floral volatile emissions to soil water content were analysed. METHODS Plants of the sub-alpine herb Ipomopsis aggregata and hybrids with its closest congener were subjected to a progressive dry down, mimicking the range of soil moistures experienced in the field. Floral volatiles and leaf gas exchange were measured at four time points during the drought. KEY RESULTS As the soil dried, floral volatile emissions increased overall and changed in composition, from more 1,3-octadiene and benzyl alcohol to higher representation of some terpenes. Emissions of individual compounds were not linearly related to volumetric water content in the soil. The dominant compound, the monoterpene α-pinene, made up the highest percentage of the scent mixture when soil moisture was intermediate. In contrast, emission of the sesquiterpene (E,E)-α-farnesene accelerated as the drought became more intense. Changes in floral volatiles did not track the time course of changes in photosynthetic rate or stomatal conductance. CONCLUSIONS This study shows responses of specific floral volatile organic compounds to soil moisture. The non-linear responses furthermore suggest that extreme droughts may have impacts that are not predictable from milder droughts. Floral volatiles are likely to change seasonally with early summer droughts in the Rocky Mountains, as well as over years as snowmelt becomes progressively earlier. Changes in water availability may have impacts on plant-animal interactions that are mediated through non-linear changes in floral volatiles.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
- For correspondence. E-mail
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
- CONACYT – Departamento de Ecología Tropical, Campus de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias, Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, Yucatán, México
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- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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Campbell DR, Faidiga A, Trujillo G. Clines in traits compared over two decades in a plant hybrid zone. Ann Bot 2018; 122:315-324. [PMID: 29800076 PMCID: PMC6070099 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcy072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2018] [Accepted: 04/17/2018] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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Background and Aims Clines in traits across hybrid zones reflect a balance between natural selection and gene flow. Changes over time in average values for traits, and especially the shapes of their clines, are rarely investigated in plants, but could result from evolution in an unstable hybrid zone. Differences in clines between floral and vegetative traits could indicate different strengths of divergent selection. Methods Five floral and two vegetative traits were measured in 12 populations along an elevational gradient spanning a natural hybrid zone between Ipomopsis aggregata and Ipomopsis tenuituba. We compared clines in the floral traits with those measured 25 years ago. Observed changes in mean trait values were compared with predictions based on prior estimates of natural selection. We also compared the steepness and position of clines between the floral and vegetative traits. Key Results Corolla length has increased over five generations to an extent that matches predictions from measurements of phenotypic selection and heritability. The shape of its cline, and that of other traits, has not changed detectably. Clines varied across traits, but not all floral traits showed steeper clines than did vegetative traits. Both suites of morphological traits had steeper clines than did neutral molecular markers. Conclusions The increase in corolla length provides a rare example of a match between predicted and observed evolution of a plant trait in natural populations. The clinal properties are consistent with the hypothesis that habitat-mediated divergent selection on vegetative traits and pollinator-mediated selection on floral traits both maintain species differences across the hybrid zone.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA
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Individual differences in fecundity often serve as proxies for differences in overall fitness, especially when it is difficult to track the fate of an individual's offspring to reproductive maturity. Using fecundity may be biased, however, if density-dependent interactions between siblings affect survival and reproduction of offspring from high- and low-fecundity parents differently. To test for such density-dependent effects in plants, we sowed seeds of the wildflower Ipomopsis aggregata (scarlet gilia) to mimic partially overlapping seed shadows of pairs of plants, one of which produced twice as many seeds. We tested for differences in offspring success using a genetic marker to track offspring to flowering multiple years later. Without density dependence, the high-fecundity parent should produce twice as many surviving offspring. We also developed a model that considered the geometry of seed shadows and assumed limited survivors so that the number of juvenile recruits is proportional to the area. Rather than a ratio of 2∶1 offspring success from high- versus low-fecundity parents, our model predicted a ratio of 1.42∶1, which would translate into weaker selection. Empirical ratios of juvenile offspring and of flowers produced conformed well to the model's prediction. Extending the model shows how spatial relationships of parents and seed dispersal patterns modify inferences about relative fitness based solely on fecundity.
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Gallagher MK, Campbell DR. Shifts in water availability mediate plant-pollinator interactions. New Phytol 2017; 215:792-802. [PMID: 28517023 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Accepted: 04/11/2017] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Altered precipitation patterns associated with anthropogenic climate change are expected to have many effects on plants and insect pollinators, but it is unknown if effects on pollination are mediated by changes in water availability. We tested the hypothesis that impacts of climate on plant-pollinator interactions operate through changes in water availability, and specifically that such effects occur through alteration of floral attractants. We manipulated water availability in two naturally occurring Mertensia ciliata (Boraginaceae) populations using water addition, water reduction and control plots and measured effects on vegetative and floral traits, pollinator visitation and seed set. While most floral trait values, including corolla size and nectar, increased linearly with increasing water availability, in this bumblebee-pollinated species, pollinator visitation peaked at intermediate water levels. Visitation also peaked at an intermediate corolla length, while its relationship to corolla width varied across sites. Seed set, however, increased linearly with water. These results demonstrate the potential for changes in water availability to impact plant-pollinator interactions through pollinator responses to differences in floral attractants, and that the effects of water on pollinator visitation can be nonlinear. Plant responses to changes in resource availability may be an important mechanism by which climate change will affect species interactions.
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- M Kate Gallagher
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-2525, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-2525, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, 81224, USA
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Meléndez‐Ackerman E, Campbell DR. ADAPTIVE SIGNIFICANCE OF FLOWER COLOR AND INTER‐TRAIT CORRELATIONS IN AN
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HYBRID ZONE. Evolution 2017; 52:1293-1303. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02011.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/05/1997] [Accepted: 05/26/1998] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Elvia Meléndez‐Ackerman
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine California 92697
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine California 92697
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
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Pollinators that forage indiscriminately can transfer pollen from one species to another, reducing the amount that reaches conspecific flowers. I present evidence that the presence of another plant species visited by the same pollinators can also reduce pollen dispersal distances and outcrossing. This has the potential to influence gene flow and reproductive success. Pollen carryover and movement patterns were measured for the shared insect pollinators of Stellaria pubera and Claytonia virginica in North Carolina. Bee flies deposited similar amounts of Stellaria pollen on a series of pistillate Claytonia flowers as on a series of pistillate Stellaria flowers. In arrays of potted plants, flies and solitary bees visited most flowers on a plant before leaving and then flew to a nearby plant chosen independently of species; 95% of moves were to one of 12 nearest neighbors. These measures of pollen carryover and movement patterns were used in a set of computer simulations to predict pollen dispersal distances. The simulations suggested that C. virginica substantially reduces outcrossing and pollen flow in S. pubera. These predictions were tested by tracking dye movement from anthers in populations of potted plants. Addition of C. virginica reduced the mean squared distance moved by dye to receptive S. pubera flowers by 23% and reduced the amount of dye moved by 51%. The estimated pollen component of gene flow was also much lower in a natural population of 5. pubera mixed with C. virginica than in the synthetic single-species populations.
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Campbell DR. EVOLUTION OF FLORAL TRAITS IN A HERMAPHRODITIC PLANT: FIELD MEASUREMENTS OF HERITABILITIES AND GENETIC CORRELATIONS. Evolution 2017; 50:1442-1453. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1996.tb03918.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/1995] [Accepted: 11/28/1995] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine California 92717
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Campbell DR, Waser NM, Wolf PG. POLLEN TRANSFER BY NATURAL HYBRIDS AND PARENTAL SPECIES IN AN
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HYBRID ZONE. Evolution 2017; 52:1602-1611. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1998.tb02241.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/1997] [Accepted: 07/21/1998] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine California 92697
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
- Department of Biology University of California Riverside California 92521
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- Department of Biology Utah State University Logan Utah 84322
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Campbell DR, Waser NM, Price MV, Lynch EA, Mitchell RJ. COMPONENTS OF PHENOTYPIC SELECTION: POLLEN EXPORT AND FLOWER COROLLA WIDTH IN
IPOMOPSIS AGGREGATA. Evolution 2017; 45:1458-1467. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1991.tb02648.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/1990] [Accepted: 02/08/1991] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine CA 92717 USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224 USA
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224 USA
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Behavioral Biology University of Minnesota Minneapolis MN 55455 USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224 USA
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA 92521 USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224 USA
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Campbell DR. GENETIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL VARIATION IN LIFE‐HISTORY TRAITS OF A MONOCARPIC PERENNIAL: A DECADE‐LONG FIELD EXPERIMENT. Evolution 2017; 51:373-382. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1997.tb02424.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/1996] [Accepted: 10/17/1996] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine California 92697
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine CA 92717 USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224 USA
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Campbell DR. MEASUREMENTS OF SELECTION IN A HERMAPHRODITIC PLANT: VARIATION IN MALE AND FEMALE POLLINATION SUCCESS. Evolution 2017; 43:318-334. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1989.tb04230.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/1987] [Accepted: 08/22/1988] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Biology University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22901
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224
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Campbell DR, Waser NM. VARIATION IN POLLEN FLOW WITHIN AND AMONG POPULATIONS OF
IPOMOPSIS AGGREGATA. Evolution 2017; 43:1444-1455. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1989.tb02595.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/1987] [Accepted: 06/02/1989] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Biology Department Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22901
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside CA 92521
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte CO 81224
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Campbell DR, Waser NM, Price MV. INDIRECT SELECTION OF STIGMA POSITION IN
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VIA A GENETICALLY CORRELATED TRAIT. Evolution 2017; 48:55-68. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.1994.tb01294.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/1992] [Accepted: 06/09/1993] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of California Irvine California 92717
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside California 92521
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
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- Department of Biology University of California Riverside California 92521
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory Crested Butte Colorado 81224
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Weller SG, Sakai AK, Campbell DR, Powers JM, Peña SR, Keir MJ, Loomis AK, Heintzman SM, Weisenberger L. An enigmatic Hawaiian moth is a missing link in the adaptive radiation of Schiedea. New Phytol 2017; 213:1533-1542. [PMID: 28079938 DOI: 10.1111/nph.14254] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/28/2016] [Accepted: 09/02/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Shifts in pollination may drive adaptive diversification of reproductive systems within plant lineages. The monophyletic genus Schiedea is a Hawaiian lineage of 32 extant species, with spectacular diversity in reproductive systems. Biotic pollination is the presumed ancestral condition, but this key element of the life history and its role in shaping reproductive systems has remained undocumented. We observed floral visitors to two species of Schiedea and conducted field experiments to test pollinator effectiveness. We used choice tests to compare attraction of pollinators to species hypothesized to be biotically vs wind-pollinated. Pseudoschrankia brevipalpis (Erebidae), a recently described moth species known only from O'ahu, visited hermaphroditic Schiedea kaalae and S. hookeri and removed nectar from their unique tubular nectary extensions. Pseudoschrankia brevipalpis effectively pollinates S. kaalae; single visits to emasculated flowers resulted in pollen transfer. In choice tests, P. brevipalpis strongly preferred these hermaphroditic species over two subdioecious species capable of wind pollination. A shift from biotic to abiotic pollination is clearly implicated in the diversification of reproductive systems within Schiedea. Abundant pollination by a previously unknown native moth in experimental and restored populations suggests the potential for restoration to re-establish native plant-pollinator interactions critical for production of outcrossed individuals with high fitness.
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- Stephen G Weller
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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- O'ahu Army Natural Resources Program, Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit, University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
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Bruckman D, Campbell DR. Pollination of a native plant changes with distance and density of invasive plants in a simulated biological invasion. Am J Bot 2016; 103:1458-1465. [PMID: 27539258 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1600153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2016] [Accepted: 07/11/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Effects of an exotic plant on pollination may change as the invasive increases in density. Quantity of pollinator visits to a native may increase, decrease, or change nonlinearly, while visit quality is likely to decrease with greater interspecific pollen movement. How visit quantity and quality contribute to the effect on reproductive success at each invasion stage has not been measured. METHODS We simulated four stages of invasion by Brassica nigra by manipulating the neighborhood of potted plants of the native Phacelia parryi in a field experiment. Stages were far from the invasion, near the invasion, intermixed with the invasive at low density, and intermixed at high density. We measured pollinator visitation, conspecific and invasive pollen deposition, and seed set for P. parryi at each stage. KEY RESULTS Native individuals near invasive plants and within areas of low invasive density showed greatest seed production, as expected from concurrent changes in conspecific and invasive pollen deposition. Those plants experienced facilitation of visits and received more conspecific pollen relative to plants farther from invasives. Native individuals within high invasive density also received frequent visits by many pollinators (although not honeybees), but the larger receipt of invasive pollen predicted interference with pollen tubes that matched patterns in seed set. CONCLUSIONS Pollinator visitation was highest when exotic plants were nearby. Detrimental effects of heterospecific pollen deposition were highest at high exotic density. Our study quantified how reproduction benefits from near proximity to a showy invasive, but is still vulnerable when the invasive reaches high density.
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- Daniela Bruckman
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 USA
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Climate has the potential to influence evolution, but how it influences the strength or direction of natural selection is largely unknown. We quantified the strength of selection on four floral traits of the subalpine herb Ipomopsis sp. in 10 years that differed in precipitation, causing extreme temporal variation in the date of snowmelt in the Colorado Rocky Mountains. The chosen floral traits were under selection by hummingbird and hawkmoth pollinators, with hawkmoth abundance highly variable across years. Selection for flower length showed environmental sensitivity, with stronger selection in years with later snowmelt, as higher water resources can allow translation of pollination success into fitness based on seed production. Selection on corolla width also varied across years, favouring narrower corolla tubes in two unusual years with hawkmoths, and wider corollas in another late snowmelt year. Our results illustrate how changes in climate could alter natural selection even when the primary selective agent is not directly influenced.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA
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- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA Department of Biology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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Campbell DR, Jürgens A, Johnson SD. Reproductive isolation between Zaluzianskya species: the influence of volatiles and flower orientation on hawkmoth foraging choices. New Phytol 2016; 210:333-342. [PMID: 26536281 DOI: 10.1111/nph.13746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2015] [Accepted: 10/06/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Floral trait differences between related species may play a key role in reproductive isolation imposed by pollinators. Volatile emissions can influence pollinator choice, but how they act in combination with traits such as flower orientation is rarely studied. We compared flower-opening patterns, morphology, colour, orientation and volatile emissions for two closely related species of Zaluzianskya and their natural hybrids. Hawkmoth pollinators were tested for preference between flowers of the two species, and between flowers with manipulations of volatiles or orientation. Flowers of Z. natalensis and Z. microsiphon open at night and day, respectively, but they overlap during early evening, when hawkmoths showed a strong preference for Z. natalensis. The species have similar flower size and colour, but Z. natalensis emits more floral volatiles in the evening and presents flowers vertically face-up as opposed to horizontally in Z. microsiphon, whereas natural hybrids are intermediate. Adding methyl benzoate and linalool to flowers of Z. microsiphon did not increase hawkmoth attraction, but re-orientation of flowers to face vertically increased attraction when scent cues were present, whereas re-orientation of Z. natalensis flowers to face horizontally decreased attraction. This study highlights the importance of flower orientation in imposing reproductive isolation.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, 92697, USA
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- Plant Chemical Ecology, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Schnittspahnstrasse 4, 64287, Darmstadt, Germany
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- School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
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Raguso RA, Thompson JN, Campbell DR. Improving our chemistry: challenges and opportunities in the interdisciplinary study of floral volatiles. Nat Prod Rep 2015; 32:893-903. [PMID: 25882132 DOI: 10.1039/c4np00159a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The field of chemical ecology was established, in large part, through collaborative studies between biologists and chemists with common interests in the mechanisms that mediate chemical communication in ecological and evolutionary contexts. Pollination is one highly diverse and important category of such interactions, and there is growing evidence that floral volatiles play important roles in mediating pollinator behaviour and its consequences for plant reproductive ecology and evolution. Here we outline next-generation questions emerging in the study of plants and pollinators, and discuss the potential for strengthening collaboration between biologists and chemists in answering such questions.
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- R A Raguso
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 215 Tower Road, Ithaca, 14853, NY, USA.
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Bischoff M, Raguso RA, Jürgens A, Campbell DR. Context-dependent reproductive isolation mediated by floral scent and color. Evolution 2014; 69:1-13. [PMID: 25354994 DOI: 10.1111/evo.12558] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2014] [Accepted: 10/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Reproductive isolation due to pollinator behavior is considered a key mode of speciation in flowering plants. Although floral scent is thought to mediate pollinator behavior, little is known about its effects on pollinator attraction and floral visitation in the wild. We used field experiments with wild hawkmoths and laboratory experiments with naïve hawkmoths to investigate attraction to and probing of flowers in response to indole, a volatile emitted by Ipomopsis tenuituba but not its close relative I. aggregata, both alone and in combination with floral color differences. We demonstrated that indole attracts wild hawkmoths to flowers, but has little effect on the rate at which those attracted moths probe flowers. In contrast, white flower color did not influence hawkmoth attraction in the field, but caused more attracted moths to probe flowers. Thus, the moths require both scent and high visual contrast, in that order, to feed at flowers at dusk. Their preference for indole-scented flowers is innate, but species-specific preference is mitigated by previous experience and plant spatial patterning. This context-dependent behavior helps explain why these Ipomopsis species show geographical variation in the extent of hybridization and may potentially explain formation of hybrid bridges in other systems of hawkmoth-pollinated plants.
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- Mascha Bischoff
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California, 92697; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, Colorado, 81224; Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853
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Bruckman D, Campbell DR. Floral neighborhood influences pollinator assemblages and effective pollination in a native plant. Oecologia 2014; 176:465-76. [PMID: 25047026 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-014-3023-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2014] [Accepted: 07/04/2014] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Pollinators represent an important intermediary by which different plant species can influence each other's reproductive fitness. Floral neighbors can modify the quantity of pollinator visits to a focal species but may also influence the composition of visitor assemblages that plants receive leading to potential changes in the average effectiveness of floral visits. We explored how the heterospecific floral neighborhood (abundance of native and non-native heterospecific plants within 2 m × 2 m) affects pollinator visitation and composition of pollinator assemblages for a native plant, Phacelia parryi. The relative effectiveness of different insect visitors was also assessed to interpret the potential effects on plant fitness of shifts in pollinator assemblage composition. Although the common non-native Brassica nigra did not have a significant effect on overall pollinator visitation rate to P. parryi, the proportion of flower visits that were made by native pollinators increased with increasing abundance of heterospecific plant species in the floral neighborhood other than B. nigra. Furthermore, native pollinators deposited twice as many P. parryi pollen grains per visit as did the nonnative Apis mellifera, and visits by native bees also resulted in more seeds than visits by A. mellifera. These results indicate that the floral neighborhood can influence the composition of pollinator assemblages that visit a native plant and that changes in local flower communities have the potential to affect plant reproductive success through shifts in these assemblages towards less effective pollinators.
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- Daniela Bruckman
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA, 92697-2525, USA,
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Bischoff M, Jürgens A, Campbell DR. Floral scent in natural hybrids of Ipomopsis (Polemoniaceae) and their parental species. Ann Bot 2014; 113:533-44. [PMID: 24355404 PMCID: PMC3906972 DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/29/2013] [Accepted: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 05/27/2023]
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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Floral traits, such as floral volatiles, can contribute to pre-zygotic reproductive isolation by promoting species-specific pollinator foraging. When hybrid zones form, floral traits could also influence post-zygotic isolation. This study examined floral volatiles in parental species and natural hybrids in order to explore potential scent mediation of pre-zygotic and post-zygotic isolation. METHODS Floral bouquets were analysed for the sister species Ipomopsis aggregata and I. tenuituba and their natural hybrids at two contact sites differing in both hybridization rate and temporal foraging pattern of hawkmoth pollinators. Floral volatiles were quantified in diurnal and nocturnal scent samples using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. KEY RESULTS The bouquets of parental species and hybrids showed qualitative overlap. All flowers emitted similar sets of monoterpenoid, sesquiterpenoid, aliphatic and benzenoid compounds, but separated into groups defined by multivariate analysis of quantitative emissions. The parental species differed most strikingly in the nitrogenous compound indole, which was found almost exclusively in nocturnal bouquets of I. tenuituba. Natural hybrid bouquets were highly variable, and showed emission rates of several compounds that appeared transgressive. However, indole emission rates were intermediate in the hybrids compared with rates in the parents. Volatile bouquets at the contact site with lower hybridization did not show greater species specificity in overall scent emission, but I. tenuituba presented a stronger indole signal during peak hawkmoth activity at that site. CONCLUSIONS The two species of Ipomopsis differed in patterns of floral bouquets, with indole emitted in nocturnal I. tenuituba, but not in I. aggregata. Natural hybrid bouquets were not consistently intermediate between the parents, although hybrids were intermediate in indole emission. The indole signal could potentially serve as a hawkmoth attractant that mediates reproductive isolation both before and after hybrid formation.
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- Mascha Bischoff
- Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, 215 Tower Road, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA
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- University of KwaZulu-Natal, School of Life Sciences, P. Bag X01 Scottsville, Pietermaritzburg 3209, South Africa
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
- Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO 81224, USA
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Campbell DR, Forster M, Bischoff M. Selection of trait combinations through bee and fly visitation to flowers of Polemonium foliosissimum. J Evol Biol 2013; 27:325-36. [PMID: 24341383 DOI: 10.1111/jeb.12295] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2013] [Revised: 11/11/2013] [Accepted: 11/11/2013] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Pollinators are known to exert natural selection on floral traits, but the extent to which combinations of floral traits are subject to correlational selection (nonadditive effects of two traits on fitness) is not well understood. Over two years, we used phenotypic manipulations of plant traits to test for effects of flower colour, flower shape and their interaction on rates of pollinator visitation to Polemonium foliosissimum. We also tested for correlational selection based on weighting visitation by the amount of conspecific pollen delivered per visit by each category of insect visitor. Although bumblebees were the presumed pollinators, solitary bees and flies contributed substantially (42%) to pollination. In manipulations of one trait at a time, insects visited flowers presenting the natural colour and shape over flowers manipulated to present artificial mutants with either paler colour or a more open or more tubular flower. When both colour and shape were manipulated in combination, selection on both traits arose, with bumblebees responding mainly to colour and flies responding mainly to shape. Despite selection on both floral traits, in a year with many bumblebees, we saw no evidence for correlational selection of these traits. In a year when flies predominated, fly visitation showed a pattern of correlational selection, but not favouring the natural phenotype, and correlational selection was still not detected for expected pollen receipt. These results show that flower colour and shape are subject to pollinator-mediated selection and that correlational selection can be generated based on pollinator visitation alone, but provide no evidence for correlational selection specifically for the current phenotype.
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA
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Campbell DR, Bischoff M. Selection for a floral trait is not mediated by pollen receipt even though seed set in the population is pollen-limited. Funct Ecol 2013. [DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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- Diane R. Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology; University of California; Irvine; CA; 92697,; USA
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Future changes in environmental conditions may alter evolutionary processes, including hybridization in nature. Frequency of hybrids could be altered via range shifts by the parental species or by changes in prezygotic or postzygotic reproductive isolation. We examined the potential for range shifts and change in postzygotic isolation by determining effects of increasing and decreasing precipitation on leaf physiology and fitness components in the subalpine herbs Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae), I. tenuituba¸ and their natural hybrids in a common garden in the habitat of I. aggregata. METHODS Summer precipitation was experimentally doubled or halved over 3 yr in comparison with ambient conditions. We measured relative growth rate, specific leaf area, intrinsic water-use efficiency, survival to reproduction, biomass, number of flowers produced, and floral morphology. KEY RESULTS Ipomopsis tenuituba increased relative growth rate with higher precipitation more so than did I. aggregata during the first summer, but this response did not result in changes across treatments in relative survival or final reproductive success of the two species. When precipitation was reduced, the relative success of hybrids was greater than that of the home species, I. aggregata. In dry conditions, hybrids increased water-use efficiency and fitness as indexed by number of flowers more so than the other plant types did. CONCLUSIONS Increased reproduction in hybrids in the reduced precipitation regime indicates that postzygotic reproductive isolation may breakdown under imposition of dry conditions. These results suggest the potential for frequency of hybrids to increase if severe droughts become more common.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
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Sakai AK, Weller SG, Campbell DR, Culley TM, Dunbar-Wallis AK, Andres AM. Measure for measure: comparing morphological and biomass traits for sex allocation in two gynodioecious species. Am J Bot 2013; 100:1071-1082. [PMID: 23703857 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300045] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Sex allocation models assume male and female traits are measured in a common currency, allocation traits show heritability, and tradeoffs between investment in the two sexual functions occur. The potential for model predictions and genetic parameters to depend on the currency used is not well understood, despite frequent use of measures not in a common currency. • METHODS We analyzed the relationship between common currency (biomass of carpels, seeds, and stamens) measures and morphological measures (numbers of ovules, seeds, and pollen) in Schiedea salicaria (12-13% females) and S. adamantis (39% females), two closely related gynodioecious species. Additionally, we compared heritabilities and genetic correlations for male and female allocation between these two types of measures. • KEY RESULTS Ovule, seed, and pollen number show greater sexual dimorphism in S. adamantis than in S. salicaria. Most but not all morphological traits and analogous biomass traits are highly correlated with a linear relationship. Narrow-sense heritabilities based on the two methods are often similar, but higher for ovule number than carpel mass and lower for anther number than stamen mass in S. adamantis. Neither trait type shows negative genetic correlations between male and female function. • CONCLUSIONS Both trait types show greater sexual dimorphism in S. adamantis, and significant heritabilities suggest that morphological traits will continue to evolve with breeding system changes. Although most relationships between morphological and biomass traits are linear, curvilinear relationships for two traits suggest that caution is warranted if morphological and common currency traits are used interchangeably in fitness gain curves.
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- Ann K Sakai
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Campbell DR, Bischoff M, Lord JM, Robertson AW. Where have all the blue flowers gone: pollinator responses and selection on flower colour in New Zealand Wahlenbergia albomarginata. J Evol Biol 2011; 25:352-64. [PMID: 22151952 DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2011.02430.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Although pollinators are thought to select on flower colour, few studies have experimentally decoupled effects of colour from correlated traits on pollinator visitation and pollen transfer. We combined selection analysis and phenotypic manipulations to measure the effect of petal colour on visitation and pollen export at two spatial scales in Wahlenbergia albomarginata. This species is representative of many New Zealand alpine herbs that have secondarily evolved white or pale flowers. The major pollinators, solitary bees, exerted phenotypic selection on flower size but not colour, quantified by bee vision. When presented with manipulated flowers, bees visited flowers painted blue to resemble a congener over white flowers in large, but not small, experimental arrays. Pollen export was higher for blue flowers in large arrays. Pollinator preference does not explain the pale colouration of W. albomarginata, as commonly hypothesized. Absence of bright blue could be driven instead by indirect selection of correlated characters.
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- D R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA.
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Sulabo RC, Jones CK, Tokach MD, Goodband RD, Dritz SS, Campbell DR, Ratliff BW, DeRouchey JM, Nelssen JL. Factors affecting storage stability of various commercial phytase sources. J Anim Sci 2011; 89:4262-71. [PMID: 21890502 DOI: 10.2527/jas.2011-3948] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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A 360-d study was performed to evaluate the effects of different environmental conditions on storage stability of exogenous phytases. Coated and uncoated products from 3 phytase sources [Ronozyme P (DSM Nutritional Products, Basel, Switzerland), OptiPhos (Phytex LLC, Sheridan, IN), and Phyzyme (Danisco Animal Nutrition, Marlborough, UK)] were stored as pure forms, in a vitamin premix, or in a vitamin and trace mineral (VTM) premix. Pure products were stored at -18, 5, 23, and 37°C (75% humidity). Premixes were stored at 23 and 37°C. Sampling was performed on d 0, 30, 60, 90, 120, 180, 270, and 360. Sampling of the pure products stored at -18 (lack of sample) and 5°C (because of mold growth) was discontinued after d 120. Stability was reported as the residual phytase activity (% of initial) at each sampling point. For the stability of the pure forms, all interactive and main effects of the phytase product, coating, time, and storage temperature were significant (P < 0.01), except for the time × coating interaction. When stored at 23°C or less, pure phytases retained at least 91, 85, 78, and 71% of their initial phytase activity at 30, 60, 90, and 120 d of storage, respectively. However, storing pure products at 37°C reduced (P < 0.01) phytase stability, with OptiPhos retaining the most (P < 0.01) activity. Coating mitigated (P < 0.01) the negative effects of high storage temperature for Ronozyme and OptiPhos (from d 90 onward), but not for Phyzyme. For the stability of phytase in different forms of storage, all interactive and main effects of phytase product, form, coating, time, and temperature of storage were significant (P < 0.01). When stored at room temperature (23°C), retained phytase activities for most the phytase sources were more than 85, 73, and 60% of the initial activity up to 180 d when stored as pure products, vitamin premixes, or VTM premixes, respectively. When stored at 37°C, pure phytase products had greater (P < 0.01) retention of initial phytase activity than when phytases were mixed with the vitamin or VTM premixes. Coated phytases stored in any form had greater (P < 0.01) activity retention than the uncoated phytases at all sampling periods. Results indicate that storage stability of commercially available phytases is affected by duration of storage, temperature, product form, coating, and phytase source. Pure products held at 23°C or less were the most stable. In premixes, longer storage times and higher temperatures reduced phytase activity, but coating mitigated some of these negative effects.
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- Department of Animal Sciences and Industry, College of Agriculture, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66506-0201, USA
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BACKGROUND The clinical benefit for depression of an interactive computer-assisted cognitive-behavioral program on CD-ROM, the Wellness Workshop (WW), was evaluated in a randomized controlled trial. METHOD A total of 191 individuals referred by primary-care physicians were randomly assigned to a control group, where physician-directed treatment as usual (TAU) was provided, or to a treatment group, where TAU was supplemented with the WW CD-ROM, delivered by mail (WW+TAU). Data were collected at baseline, at 6 weeks' post-intervention, and at a 6-month follow-up assessment. Participants were given a strong incentive by a reimbursement of $75 for completion of each assessment. Measures included symptom ratings obtained via structured clinical diagnostic interviews, as well as a battery of self-report questionnaires on symptoms specifically targeted by the intervention. RESULTS Analysis of results demonstrated evidence for skill acquisition for improving dysfunctional thinking and reducing anxiety. Among those who met diagnostic criteria for depression, WW+TAU participants were three times more likely to remit at 6 weeks' post-test than TAU participants. CONCLUSIONS The evidence supports the conclusion that the WW intervention added benefit to traditional care for depression. No placebo comparison group was included and the WW+TAU participants received slightly more attention (a supportive telephone contact, ≤ 5 min from a psychologist 2 weeks after receiving the program). Overall, the findings add support to the accumulating evidence for the potential clinical benefit of computer-assisted behavioral health interventions.
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- mPower, LLC, Eugene, Oregon, USA.
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Campbell DR, Weller SG, Sakai AK, Culley TM, Dang PN, Dunbar-Wallis AK. Genetic variation and covariation in floral allocation of two species of Schiedea with contrasting levels of sexual dimorphism. Evolution 2010; 65:757-70. [PMID: 21091465 DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01172.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The evolution of sexual dimorphism depends in part on the additive genetic variance-covariance matrices within females, within males, and across the sexes. We investigated quantitative genetics of floral biomass allocation in females and hermaphrodites of gynodioecious Schiedea adamantis (Caryophyllaceae). The G-matrices within females (G(f)), within hermaphrodites (G(m)), and between sexes (B) were compared to those for the closely related S. salicaria, which exhibits a lower frequency of females and less-pronounced sexual dimorphism. Additive genetic variation was detected in all measured traits in S. adamantis, with narrow-sense heritability from 0.34-1.0. Female allocation and floral size traits covaried more tightly than did those traits with allocation to stamens. Between-sex genetic correlations were all <1, indicating sex-specific expression of genes. Common principal-components analysis detected differences between G(f) and G(m) , suggesting potential for further independent evolution of the sexes. The two species of Schiedea differed in G(m) and especially so in G(f) , with S. adamantis showing greater genetic variation in capsule mass and tighter genetic covariation between female allocation traits and flower size in females. Despite greater sexual dimorphism in S. adamantis, genetic correlations between the two sexes (standardized elements of B) were similar to correlations between sexes in S. salicaria.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
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Despite a long-standing belief that insect pollinators can select for certain flower colors, there are few experimental demonstrations that free-flying insects choose between natural flowers based on color. We investigated responses of insect visitors to experimental manipulations of flower color in the New Zealand alpine. Native syrphid flies (Allograpta and Platycheirus) and solitary bees (Hylaeus and Leioproctus) showed distinct preferences for visiting certain flower species. These responses were determined, in part, by flower color, as insects also responded to experimental manipulations of visible petal color in 7 out of 11 tests with different combinations of flower species and insect type. When preferences were detected, syrphid flies chose yellow over white petals regardless of flower species, whereas Hylaeus chose white over yellow Ourisia glandulosa. In some cases, the strength and direction of color preference depended on the context of other floral traits, in which case the response usually favored the familiar, normal combination of traits. Syrphid flies also visited in response to floral morphological traits but did not show preference based on UV reflectance. The unusually high preponderance of white flowers in the New Zealand alpine is not explained by complete generalization of flower color choice. Instead, the insect visitors show preferences based on color, including colors other than white, along with other floral traits. Furthermore, they can respond in complex ways to combinations of floral cues, suggesting that traits may act in nonadditive ways in determining pollinator visitation.
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- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, USA.
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Campbell DR, Wu CA, Travers SE. Photosynthetic and growth responses of reciprocal hybrids to variation in water and nitrogen availability. Am J Bot 2010; 97:925-33. [PMID: 21622463 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0900387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY Fitness of plant hybrids often depends upon the environment, but physiological mechanisms underlying the differential responses to habitat are poorly understood. We examined physiological responses of Ipomopsis species and hybrids, including reciprocal F(1)s and F(2)s, to variation in soil moisture and nitrogen. • METHODS To examine responses to moisture, we subjected plants to a dry-down experiment. Nitrogen was manipulated in three independent experiments, one in the field and two in common environments. • KEY RESULTS Plants with I. tenuituba cytoplasmic background had lower optimal soil moisture for photosynthesis, appearing better adapted to dry conditions, than plants with I. aggregata cytoplasm. This result supported a prediction from prior studies. The species and hybrids did not differ greatly in physiological responses to nitrogen. An increase in soil nitrogen increased leaf nitrogen, carbon assimilation, integrated water-use efficiency, and growth, but the increases in growth were not mediated primarily by an increase in photosynthesis. In neither the field, nor in common-garden studies, did physiological responses to soil nitrogen differ detectably across plant types, although only I. aggregata and hybrids increased seed production in the field. • CONCLUSIONS These results demonstrate differences in photosynthetic responses between reciprocal hybrids and suggest that water use is more important than nitrogen in explaining the relative photosynthetic performance of these hybrids compared to their parents.
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Affiliation(s)
- Diane R Campbell
- Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, California 92697 USA
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Burd M, Ashman TL, Campbell DR, Dudash MR, Johnston MO, Knight TM, Mazer SJ, Mitchell RJ, Steets JA, Vamosi JC. Ovule number per flower in a world of unpredictable pollination. Am J Bot 2009; 96:1159-1167. [PMID: 21628266 DOI: 10.3732/ajb.0800183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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The number of ovules per flower varies over several orders of magnitude among angiosperms. Here we consider evidence that stochastic uncertainty in pollen receipt and ovule fertilization has been a selective factor in the evolution of ovule number per flower. We hypothesize that stochastic variation in floral mating success creates an advantage to producing many ovules per flower because a plant will often gain more fitness from occasional abundant seed production in randomly successful flowers than it loses in resource commitment to less successful flowers. Greater statistical dispersion in pollination and fertilization among flowers increases the frequency of windfall success, which should increase the strength of selection for greater ovule number per flower. We therefore looked for evidence of a positive relationship between ovule number per flower and the statistical dispersion of pollen receipt or seed number per flower in a comparative analysis involving 187 angiosperm species. We found strong evidence of such a relationship. Our results support the hypothesis that unpredictable variation in mating success at the floral level has been a factor in the evolution of ovule packaging in angiosperms.
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- Martin Burd
- School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia
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