Pollinator specificity, floral odour chemistry and the phylogeny of Australian sexually deceptive Chiloglottis orchids: Implications for pollinator-driven speciation

New Phytologist

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 437-450

  Peakall, Rod ^a   Ebert, Daniel ^a   Poldy, Jacqueline ^b   Barrow, Russell A ^b   Francke, Wittko ^c   Bower, Colin C ^d   Schiestl, Florian P ^e  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^d FloraSearch   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical mimicry; Chiloglottis; Diversification; Orchidaceae; Pollination; Semiochemicals; Sexual deception; Speciation

Indexed keywords

CYCLOHEXANONE DERIVATIVE;

BIOASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERB; KETONE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MIMICRY; ODOR; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYTOCHEMISTRY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SEMIOCHEMICAL; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASP;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOASSAY; CHEMISTRY; DECISION MAKING; FLOWER; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ODOR; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WASP;

ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CYCLOHEXANONES; FLOWERS; GENETIC SPECIATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; ODORS; ORCHIDACEAE; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; WASPS;

CHILOGLOTTIS; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 77954913172     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03308.x     Document Type: Article

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