Constraints and selection: Insights from microsporogenesis in Asparagales

Evolution and Development

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 460-471

  Penet, Laurent ^a,d   Laurin, Michel ^b   Gouyon, Pierre Henri ^a,c   Nadot, Sophie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MONOCOTYLEDON; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENETICS; POLLEN;

ASPARAGALES;

EID: 34548525380     PISSN: 1520541X     EISSN: 1525142X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2007.00183.x     Document Type: Article

References (54)

1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 1998. An ordinal classification for the families of flowering plants. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 85 : 531 553.
2. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2003. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 141 : 399 436.
3. Antonovics, J. van Tienderen, P. H. 1991. Ontoecogenophyloconstraints? The chaos of constraint terminology. Trends Ecol. Evol. 6 : 166 168.
4. Arthur, W. 2001. Developmental drive: an important determinant of the direction of phenotypic evolution. Evol. Dev. 3 : 271 278.
5. Arthur, W. 2002. The emerging conceptual framework of evolutionary developmental biology. Nature 415 : 757 764.
6. Arthur, W. Farrow, M. 1999. The pattern of variation in centipede segment number as an example of developmental constraint in evolution. J. Theor. Biol. 200 : 183 191.
7. Blomberg, S. P. Garland, T. 2002. Tempo and mode in evolution: phylogenetic inertia, adaptation and comparative methods. J. Evol. Biol. 15 : 899 910.
8. Brakefield, P. M. 2006. Evo-devo and constraints on selection. Trends Ecol. Evol. 21 : 362 368.
9. Casgrain, P. 2005. Permute!, version 3.4 alpha. Available at :
10. Casgrain, P., Legendre, P. Vaudor, A. 2004. Le Progiciel R: analyse multidimensionnelle de spatiale. Available at :
11. Chase, M., Duvall, M. R., Hills, H. G., Conran, J., Cox, A. Eguiarte, L. E. 1995. Molecular systematics of Lilianae. In P. J. Rudall (ed.). Monocotyledons: Systematics and Evolution. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, pp. 109 137.
12. Cubo, J., Ponton, F., Laurin, M., de Margerie, E. Castanet, J. 2005. Phylogenetic signal in bone microstructure of sauropsids. Syst. Biol. 54 : 562 574.
13. Dajoz, I., Till-Bottraud, I. Gouyon, P.-H. 1991. Evolution of pollen morphology. Science 253 : 66 68.
14. Dajoz, I., Till-Bottraud, I. Gouyon, P.-H. 1993. Pollen aperture polymorphism and gametophyte performance in Viola diversifolia. Evolution 47 : 1080 1093.
15. Derrickson, E. M. Ricklefs, R. E. 1988. Taxon-dependent diversification of life histories and the perception of phylogenetic constraints. Funct. Ecol. 2 : 417 423.
16. Desdevises, Y., Legendre, P., Azouzi, L. Morand, S. 2003. Quantifying phylogenetically structured environmental variation. Evolution 57 : 2647 2652.
17. Diniz-Filho, J. A. F., De Sant'ana, C. E. R. Bini, L. M. 1998. An eigenvector method for estimating phylogenetic inertia. Evolution 52 : 1247 1262.
18. Duvall, M. R., et al. 1993. Phylogenetic hypotheses for the Monocotyledons constructed from rbcL sequence data. Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 80 : 607 619.
19. Erdtman, G. 1952. Pollen Morphology and Plant Taxonomy: Angiosperms. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm.
20. Faure, E., Lony, E., Lovigny, R., Menegoz, A., Ting, Y. Laurin, M. 2006. StratAdd module for Mesquite, version 1.00. Available at :
21. Felsenstein, J. 1985. Phylogenies and the comparative method. Am. Nat. 15 : 1 15.
22. Furness, C. A. Rudall, P. J. 1999. Microsporogenesis in monocotyledons. Ann. Bot. 84 : 475 499.
23. Gould, S. J. 1989. A developmental constraint in Cerion, with comments on the definition and interpretation of constraint in evolution. Evolution 43 : 516 539.
24. Gould, S. J. 1994. Tempo and mode in the macroevolutionary reconstruction of darwinism. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91 : 6764 6771.
25. Gould, S. J. Lewontin, R. C. 1979. The spandrels of San Marco and the panglossian paradigm: a critique of the adaptationist programme. Proc. R. Soc. London B Biol. Sci. 205 : 281 288.
26. Gu, X. Zhang, J. 1997. A simple method for estimating the parameter of substitution rate variation among sites. Mol. Biol. Evol. 14 : 1106 1113.
27. Janson, C. H. 1992. Measuring evolutionary constraints: a Markov model for phylogenetic transitions among seed dispersal syndromes. Evolution 46 : 136 158.
28. Josse, S., Moreau, T. Laurin, M. 2005. Stratigraphic tools for Mesquite, version 1.00. Available at :
29. Kumar, S., Tamura, K., Jakobsen, I. B. Nei, M. 2001. MEGA2: molecular evolutionary genetics analysis software. Bioinformatics 17 : 1244 1245.
30. Laurin, M. 2004. The evolution of body size, Cope's rule and the origin of amniotes. Syst. Biol. 53 : 594 622.
31. Laurin, M. 2005. Embryo retention, character optimization, and the origin of the extra-embryonic membranes of the amniotic egg. J. Nat. Hist. 39 : 3151 3161.
32. Maddison, W. P. 1995. Calculating the probability distributions of ancestral states reconstructed by parsimony on phylogenetic trees. Syst. Biol. 44 : 474 481.
33. Maddison, W. P. Maddison, D. R. 2005. Mesquite: a modular system for evolutionary analysis, version 1.06. Available at :
34. Maynard-Smith, J., et al. 1985. Developmental constraints and evolution. Q. Rev. Biol. 60 : 265 287.
35. McKitrick, M. C. 1993. Phylogenetic constraint in Evolutionary Theory. Has it any explanatory power? Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24 : 307 330.
36. Miles, D. B. Dunham, A. E. 1993. Historical perspectives in ecology and evolutionary biology. The use of phylogenetic comparative analyses. Annu. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 24 : 587 619.
37. Miller, S. P., Lunzer, M. Dean, A. M. 2006. Direct demonstration of an adaptive constraint. Science 314 : 458 461.
38. Nadot, S., Forchioni, A., Penet, L., Sannier, J. Ressayre, A. 2006. Links between early pollen development and aperture pattern in monocots. Protoplasma 228 : 55 64.
39. Pagel, M. 1994. Detecting correlated evolution in phylogenies. A general method for the comparative analysis of discrete characters. Proc. R. Soc. London B Biol. Sci. 255 : 37 45.
40. Penet, L. 2004. Evolution de la morphologie du pollen chez les Angiospermes: sélection naturelle et/ou contraintes dé veloppementales? PhD dissertation, Université Paris 11, Orsay, France.
41. Penet, L., Nadot, S., Ressayre, A., Forchioni, A., Dreyer, L. Gouyon, P.-H. 2005. Multiple developmental pathways leading to a single morph: Monosulcate pollen (examples from the Asparagales). Ann. Bot. 95 : 331 343.
42. Pigliucci, M. Kaplan, J. 2000. The fall and rise of Dr Pangloss: adaptationism and the Spandrels paper 20 years later. Trends Ecol. Evol. 15 : 66 70.
43. Resnik, D. 1995. Developmental constraints and patterns - some pertinent distinctions. J. Theor. Biol. 173 : 231 240.
44. Ressayre, A. 2001. Equatorial aperture pattern in monocots: same definition rules as in eudicots? The example of two species of Pontederiaceae. Int. J. Plant Sci. 162 : 1219 1224.
45. Ressayre, A., Dreyer, L., Triki-Teurtroy, S., Forchioni, A. Nadot, S. 2005. Post-meiotic cytokinesis and pollen aperture pattern ontogeny: comparison of development in four species differing in aperture pattern. Am. J. Bot. 92 : 576 583.
46. Ressayre, A., Godelle, B., Raquin, C. Gouyon, P.-H. 2002. Aperture pattern ontogeny in angiosperms. J. Exp. Zool. 294 : 122 135.
47. Rudall, P. J., Furness, C. A., Chase, M. W. Fay, M. F. 1997. Microsporogenesis and pollen sulcus type in Asparagales (Lilianae). Can. J. Bot. 75 : 408 430.
48. Sampson, F. B. 1969. Cytokinesis in pollen mother cells of angiosperms, with emphasis on Laurelia novae-zelandie (Monimiaceae). Cytologia 34 : 627 633.
49. Sannier, J., Nadot, S., Forchioni, A., Harley, M. Albert, B. 2006. Variation in the microsporogenesis of monosulcate palm pollen. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 151 : 93 102.
50. Stireman, J. O. 2005. The evolution of generalization? Parasitoid flies and the perils of inferring host range evolution from phylogenies. J. Evol. Biol. 18 : 325 336.
51. Swofford, D. L. 2002. PAUP*: Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (and Other Methods), version 4.0 Beta 10. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
52. Till-Bottraud, I., Vincent, M., Dajoz, I. Mignot, A. 1999. Pollen aperture heteromorphism. Variation in pollen-type proportions along altitudinal transects in Viola calcarata. C. R. Acad. Sci. Serie III Sci. Vie 322 : 579 589.
53. Travisano, M., Mongold, J. A., Bennett, A. F. Lenski, R. E. 1995. Experimental tests of the roles of adaptation, chance, and history in evolution. Science 267 : 87 90.
54. Vogl, C. Rienesl, J. 1991. Testing for developmental constraints: carpal fusions in Urodeles. Evolution 45 : 1516 1519.