期刊
PLANT BIOLOGY
卷 21, 期 4, 页码 745-752出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/plb.12968
关键词
Chromatic signal; floral colour; fly pollination; orchids
资金
- Monash Graduate Scholarship (MGS)
- Monash International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (MIPRS)
- Faculty of Sciences Postgraduate Publication Award (PPA)
- Australian Research Council [ARC: DP16010016]
Orchids are a classic angiosperm model for understanding biotic pollination. We studied orchid species within two species-rich herbaceous communities that are known to have either hymenopteran or dipteran insects as the dominant pollinators, in order to understand how flower colour relates to pollinator visual systems. We analysed features of the floral reflectance spectra that are significant to pollinator visual systems and used models of dipteran and hymenopteran colour vision to characterise the chromatic signals used by fly-pollinated and bee-pollinated orchid species. In contrast to bee-pollinated flowers, fly-pollinated flowers had distinctive points of rapid reflectance change at long wavelengths and a complete absence of such spectral features at short wavelengths. Fly-pollinated flowers also had significantly more restricted loci than bee-pollinated flowers in colour space models of fly and bee vision alike. Globally, bee-pollinated flowers are known to have distinctive, consistent colour signals. Our findings of different signals for fly pollination is consistent with pollinator-mediated selection on orchid species that results from the distinctive features of fly visual systems.
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