期刊
ANNALS OF BOTANY
卷 113, 期 2, 页码 237-249出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mct186
关键词
Adaptive wandering; generalist pollination ecotype; pollination niches; floral divergence; Erysimum mediohispanicum; Brassicaceae; speciation
资金
- Spanish MCyT [CGL2009-07015, CGL2012-34736]
- MONTES Consolider-Ingenio [CSD2008-00040]
- Junta de Andalucia [P07-RNM-02869, P11-RNM-7676]
- EU FEDER funds
- Spanish Education and Science Ministry [AP-2006-00685, BES-2007-14206]
How generalist plants diverge in response to pollinator selection without becoming specialized is still unknown. This study explores this question, focusing on the evolution of the pollination system in the pollination generalist Erysimum mediohispanicum (Brassicaceae). Pollinator assemblages were surveyed from 2001 to 2010 in 48 geo-referenced populations covering the entire geographic distribution of E. mediohispanicum. Bipartite modularity, a complex network tool, was used to find the pollination niche of each population. Evolution of the pollination niches and the correlated evolution of floral traits and pollination niches were explored using within-species comparative analyses. Despite being generalists, the E. mediohispanicum populations studied can be classified into five pollination niches. The boundaries between niches were not sharp, the niches differing among them in the relative frequencies of the floral visitor functional groups. The absence of spatial autocorrelation and phylogenetic signal indicates that the niches were distributed in a phylogeographic mosaic. The ancestral E. mediohispanicum populations presumably belonged to the niche defined by a high number of beetle and ant visits. A correlated evolution was found between pollination niches and some floral traits, suggesting the existence of generalist pollination ecotypes. It is conjectured that the geographic variation in pollination niches has contributed to the observed floral divergence in E. mediohispanicum. The process mediating this floral divergence presumably has been adaptive wandering, but the adaptation to the local pollinator faunas has been not universal. The outcome is a landscape where a few populations locally adapted to their pollination environment (generalist pollination ecotypes) coexist with many populations where this local adaptation has failed and where the plant phenotype is not primarily shaped by pollinators.
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