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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY
Volume 104, Issue 12, Pages 1846-1856Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1700229
Keywords
ancestral state reconstruction; developmental constraints; eudicots; floral morphology; floral organ initiation; floral symmetry; homoplasy; monocots; phylogeny; plant-pollinator interactions
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- Virginia Commonwealth University
- NSF [DEB-1355109]
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PREMISE OF THE STUDY: Observations of floral ontogeny indicated that floral organ initiation in pentapetalous flowers most commonly results in a medianabaxial (MAB) petal during early development, a median-adaxial (MAD) petal being less common. Such different patterns of floral organ initiation might be linked with different morphologies of floral zygomorphy that have evolved in Asteridae. Here, we provide the first study of zygomorphy in pentapetalous angiosperms placed in a phylogenetic framework, the goal being to find if the different patterns of floral organ initiation are connected with particular patterns of zygomorphy. METHODS: We analyzed patterns of floral organ initiation and displays of zygomorphy, extracted from floral diagrams representing 405 taxa in 330 genera, covering 83% of orders (30 out of 36) and 37% of families (116 out of 313) in core eudicots in the context of a phylogeny using ancestral state reconstructions. KEY RESULTS: The MAB petal initiation is the ancestral state of the pattern of floral organ initiation in pentapetalous angiosperms. Taxa with MAD petal initiation represent similar to 30 independent origins from the ancestral MAB initiation. There are distinct developmental processes that give rise to zygomorphy in different lineages of pentapetalous angiosperms, closely related lineages being likely to share similar developmental processes. CONCLUSIONS: We have demonstrated that development indeed constrains the processes that give rise to floral zygomorphy, while phylogenetic distance allows relaxation of these constraints, which provides novel insights on the role that development plays in the evolution of floral zygomorphy.
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