Intraspecific variation in sex allocation in hermaphroditic Plantago coronopus (L.)

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 302-315

  Koelewijn, H P ^a,b   Hunscheid, M P H ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Plantago coronopus; Reproductive characters; Sex allocation; Size specific gender; Trade off

Indexed keywords

EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; HERB; HERMAPHRODITE; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; REPRODUCTIVE EFFORT; SEX ALLOCATION;

NETHERLANDS;

PLANTAGO CORONOPUS;

EID: 0033998881     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1420-9101.2000.00165.x     Document Type: Article

References (81)

1. Agren, J. & Schemske, D.W. 1995. Sex allocation in the monoecious herb Begonia semiovata. Evolution 49: 121-130.
2. Ashman, T.L. & Baker, I. 1992. Variation in floral sex allocation with time of season and currency. Ecology 73: 1237-1243.
3. Atlan, A., Gouyon, P.H., Fournial, T., Pomente, D. & Couvet, D. 1992. Sex allocation in an hermaphroditic plant: the case of gynodieocy in Thymus vulgaris. J. Evol. Biol. 5: 189-203.
4. Becker, W.A. 1985. Manual of Quantitative Genetics. Academic Enterprises, Washington.
5. Bickel, A.M. & Freeman, D.C. 1993. Effects of pollen vector and geometry on floral sex ratio in monoecious plants. Am. Midl. Nat. 130: 239-247.
6. Burd, M. & Allen, T.F.H. 1988. Sexual allocation strategy in wind-pollinated plants. Evolution 42: 403-407.
7. Brunet, J. 1992. Sex allocation in hermaphroditic plants. Trends Ecol. Evol. 7: 79-83.
8. Campbell, D.R. 1992. Variation in sex allocation and floral morphology in Ipomopsis aggregata (Polemoniaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 79: 516-521.
9. Campbell, D.R. 1997. Genetic correlation between biomass allocation to male and female functions in a natural population of Ipomopsis aggregata. Heredity 79: 606-614.
10. Charlesworth, B. & Charlesworth, D. 1981. Allocation to the male and female function in hermaphrodites. Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 15: 57-74.
11. Charlesworth, D. & Morgan, M.T. 1991. Allocation of resources to sex functions in flowering plants. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London Series B 332: 91-102.
12. Charnov, E.L. 1982. The Theory of Sex Allocation. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
13. Charnov, E.L., Maynard Smith, J.M. & Bull., J.J. 1976. Why be a hermaphrodite? Nature 263: 125-126.
14. Dajoz, I. & Sandmeier, M. 1997. Plant size effects on allocation to male and female function in pearl millet, a hermaphroditic wind-pollinated species. Can. J. Bot. 75: 228-235.
15. Darwin, C. 1877. Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. John Murray, London.
16. Falconer, D.S. 1981. Introduction to Quantitative Genetics. Longman Group Ltd, London.
17. Fenster, C.B. & Carr, D.E. 1997. Genetics of sex allocation in Mimulus (Scrophulariaceae). J. Evol. Biol. 10: 641-661.
18. Fox, F.F. 1993. Size and sex allocation in monoecious woody plants. Oecologia 94: 110-113.
19. Freeman, D.C., Harper, K.T. & Charnov, E.L. 1980. Sex change in plants: old observations and new hypotheses. Oecologia 47: 222-232.
20. Garnier, P., Maurice, S. & Olivieri, I. 1993. Costly pollen in maize. Evolution 47: 946-949.
21. Ghiselin, M. 1969. The evolution of hermaphroditism among animals. Q. Rev. Biol. 44: 189-208.
22. Goldman, D.A. & Willson, M.F. 1986. Sex allocation in functionally hermaphroditic plants: a review and critique. Bot. Rev. 52: 157-194.
23. Hewitt, E.J. 1966. Sand and Water Culture Methods Used in the Study of Plant Nutrition. Commonwealth Agric. Bureaux, Farnham Royal, England.
24. Horovitz, A. 1978. Is the hermaphrodite flowering plant equisexual? Amer. J. Bot. 65: 485-486.
25. Houle, D. 1991. Genetic covariances of fitness correlates: what genetic correlations are made of and why it matters. Evolution 45: 630-648.
26. Houle, D. 1992. Comparing evolvability and variability in quantitative traits. Genetics 130: 195-204.
27. Iwasa, Y. 1991. Sex change evolution and the cost of reproduction. Behav. Ecol. 2: 56-68.
28. de Jong, G. 1993. Covariances between traits deriving from successive allocations of a resource. Funct. Ecol. 7: 75-83.
29. de Jong, G. & van Noordwijk, A.J. 1992. Acquisition and allocation of resources: genetic (co) variances, selection and life histories. Amer. Nat. 139: 749-770.
30. de Jong, T.J. & Klinkhamer, P.G.L. 1989. Size-dependency of sex allocation in hermaphroditic, monocarpic plants. Funct. Ecol. 3: 201-206.
31. de Jong, T.J., Klinkhamer, P.G.L. & Rademaker, M.C.J. 1999. How geitonogamous selfing affects sex allocation in hermaphroditic plants. J. Evol. Biol. 12: 166-176.
32. Klinkhamer, P.G.L. & de Jong, T.J. 1997. Size-dependent sex allocation to male and female reproduction. In: Plant Resource Allocation (F. A. Bazzaz & J. Grace, eds), pp. 211-229. Academic Press, San Diego.
33. Klinkhamer, P.G.L., de Jong, T.J. & Metz, H. 1997. Sex and size in cosexual plants. Trends. Ecol. Evol. 12: 260-265.
34. Koelewijn, H.P. 1996. Sexual differences in reproductive characters in gynodioecious Plantago coronopus. Oikos 75: 443-452.
35. Koelewijn, H.P. 1998. Effects of different levels of inbreeding on progeny fitness in Plantago coronopus. Evolution 52: 692-702.
36. Koelewijn, H.P. & van Damme, J.M.M. 1995a. Genetics of male sterility in Plantago coronopus. I. Cytoplasmic variation. Genetics 139: 1749-1758.
37. Koelewijn, H.P. & van Damme, J.M.M. 1995b. Genetics of male sterility in Plantago coronopus. II. Nuclear genetic variation. Genetics 139: 1759-1775.
38. Koelewijn, H.P. & van Damme, J.M.M. 1996. Gender variation, partial male sterility and labile sex expression in gynodioecious Plantago coronopus. New Phytol. 132: 67-76.
39. Kudo, G. 1993. Size-dependent resource allocation pattern and gender variation of Anemone debilis Fisch. Plant Species Biology 8: 29-34.
40. LaBarbera, N. 1989. Analyzing body size as a factor in ecology and evolution. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 20: 97-117.
41. Lambers, H., Cambridge, M., Konings, H. & Pons, T.L., eds. 1989. Causes and Consequences of Variation in Growth Rate and Productivity of Higher Plants. SPB Academic Publishers, The Hague.
42. Lande, R. & Arnold, S.J. 1983. The measurement of selection on correlated characters. Evolution 37: 1210-1267.
43. Lawrence, M.J. 1984. The genetical analysis of ecological traits. In: Evolutionary Ecology (B. Shorrocks, ed.), pp. 27-63. Blackwell, Oxford.
44. Lloyd, D.G. 1980. Sexual strategies in plants. III. A quantitative method for describing the gender of plants. New Zeal. J. Bot. 18: 103-108.
45. Lloyd, D.G. 1984. Gender allocations in outcrossing cosexual plants. In: Perspectives on Plant Population Ecology (R. Dirzo & J. Sarukan, eds), pp. 277-300. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland.
46. Lloyd, D.G. & Bawa, K.S. 1984. Modification of the gender of seed plants in varying conditions. Evol. Biol. 17: 255-338.
47. Lynch, M. & Walsh, B. 1998. Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland.
48. Mazer, S.J. 1987. The quantitative genetics of life history and fitness components in Raphanus raphanistrum L. (Brasicaceae): ecological and evolutionary consequences of seed weight variation. Amer. Nat. 130: 891-914.
49. Mazer, S.J. 1992. Environmental and genetic sources of variation in foral traits and phenotypic gender in wild radish: consequences for natural selection. In: Ecology and Evolution of Plant Reproduction (R. Wyatt, ed.), pp. 281-325. Chapman & Hall, New York.
50. Mazer, S.J. & Delesalle, V.A. 1998. Contrasting variation and covariation between gender-related traits in autogamous versus outcrossing species: alternative evolutionary predictions. Evol. Ecol. 12: 403-425.
51. Mazer, S.J., Delesalle, V.A. & Neal, P.R. 1999. Responses of floral traits to selection on primary sexual investment in Spergularia marina: The battle between the sexes. Evolution 53: 403-425.
52. McKone, M.J. 1987. Sex allocation and outcrossing rate: a test of theoretical predictions using bromegrass (Bromus). Evolution 41: 591-598.
53. McKone, M.J. 1989. Intraspecific variation in pollen yield in bromegrass (Poaceae: Bromus). Am. J. Bot. 76: 231-237.
54. McKone, M.J. & Tonkyn, D.W. 1986. Intrapopulation gender variation in common ragweed (Asteracea: Ambrosia artemisiifolia L.), a monoecious annual herb. Oecologia 70: 63-67.
55. Morgan, M. 1992. The evolution of traits influencing male and female fertility in outcrossing plants. Amer. Nat. 139: 1022-1051.
56. Morgan, M. & Schoen, D.J. 1997. The role of theory in an emerging new plant reproductive biology. Trends. Ecol. Evol. 12: 231-234.
57. van Noordwijk, A.J. & de Jong, G. 1986. Acquisition and allocation of resources: their influence on variation in life history tactics. Amer. Nat. 128: 137-142.
58. O'Neill, P. & Schmitt, J. 1993. Genetic constraints on the independent evolution of male and female reproductive characters in the tristylous plant Lythrum salicaria. Evolution 47: 1457-1471.
59. Pease, C.M. & Bull., J.J. 1988. A critique of methods for measuring life-history trade-offs. J. Evol. Biol. 1: 293-303.
60. Peters, R.H. 1983. The Ecological Implications of Body Size. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
61. Petersen, C.W. & Fischer, E.A. 1996. Intraspecific variation in sex allocation in a simultaneous hermaphrodite: the effect of individual size. Evolution 50: 636-645.
62. Pickering, C.M. & Ash, J.E. 1993. Gender variation in hermaphrodite plants: evidence from five species of alpine Ranunculus. Oikos 68: 539-548.
63. Poot, P. 1997. Reproductive allocation and resource compensation in male-sterile, partially male-sterile and hermaphroditic plants of Plantago lanceolata. Amer. J. Bot. 84: 1256-1265.
64. Prothero, J. 1986. Methodological aspects of scaling in biology. J. Theor. Biol. 118: 259-286.
65. Rayner, J.M.V. 1985. Linear relations in biomechanics: the statistics of scaling functions. J. Zool. London. (a) 206: 415-439.
66. Reekie, E.G. & Bazzaz, F.A. 1987. Reproductive effort in plants. 2. Does carbon reflect the allocation of other resources? Amer. Nat. 129: 897-906.
67. Ross, M.D. 1989. Sexual asymmetry in hermaphroditic plants. Trends Ecol. Evol. 5: 39-42.
68. Ross, M.D. & Gregorius, H.R. 1983. Outcrossing and sex function in hermaphrodites: a resource allocation model. Amer. Nat. 121: 201-224.
69. Salonen, K. 1981. Determimation of carbon - An alternative method for the estimation of biomass of zooplankton. Lamni Notes 5: 7-11.
70. Sandmeier, M. & Dajoz, I. 1997. Allocation to reproduction in pearl millet: Correlations between male and female functions. Int. J. Plant Sci. 158: 510-518.
71. Savolainen, O., Karkkainen, K., Harju, A., Nikkanen, T. & Rusanen, M. 1993. Fertility variation in Pinus sylvestris: a test of sex allocation theory. Amer. J. Bot. 80: 1016-1020.
72. Schat, H. 1982. On the ecology of some dutch dune slack plants. PhD thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.
73. Snow, A.A., Spira, T.P., Simpson, R. & Klips, R.A. 1995. The ecology of geitonogamous pollination. In: Floral Biology (D. G. Lloyd & S. C. H. Barrett, eds), pp. 191-216. Chapman & Hall, New York.
74. Sokal, R.R. & Rohlf, F.J. 1994. Biometry. W.H. Freeman, New York.
75. Solomon, B.P. 1989. Size-dependent sex ratios in the monoecious, wind-pollinated annual, Xanthium strumarium. Amer. Midl. Nat. 121: 209-218.
76. Stanton, M.L. & Galloway, L.F. 1990. Natural selection and allocation to reproduction in flowering plants. In: Sex Allocation and Sex Change: Experiments and Models (M. Mangel, ed.), pp. 1-50. American Mathematical Society, Providence.
77. Stearns, S.C. 1992. The Evolution of Life Histories. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
78. Stephenson, A.G. 1981. Flower and fruit abortion: proximate causes and ultimate functions. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 12: 253-279.
79. Waite, S. & Hutchings, M.J. 1982. Plastic energy allocation patterns in Plantago coronopus. Oikos 38: 333-342.
80. Wolff, K., Friso, B. & van Damme, J.M.M. 1988. Outcrossing rates and male sterility in natural populations of Plantago coronopus. Theor. Appl. Gen. 76: 190-196.
81. Wright, S.I. & Barrett, S.C.H. 1999. Size-dependent gender modification in a hermaphroditic perennial herb. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 266: 225-232.