Flowers as Islands: Spatial Distribution of Nectar-Inhabiting Microfungi among Plants of Mimulus aurantiacus, a Hummingbird-Pollinated Shrub

Microbial Ecology

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 711-718

  Belisle, Melinda ^a   Peay, Kabir G ^a,b   Fukami, Tadashi ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; FUNGUS; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIMULUS; NECTAR; POLLINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCETALES; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CALIFORNIA; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; FUNGI; MIMULUS; PLANT NECTAR; POLLINATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

DIPLACUS AURANTIACUS; HAPLORHINI; METSCHNIKOWIA REUKAUFII; MIMULUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 84864336521     PISSN: 00953628     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-011-9975-8     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Anderson MC (1964) Studies of the woodland light climate: I. the photographic computation of light conditions. J Ecol 52: 27-41.
2. Baas Becking LGM (1934) Geobiologie of inleiding tot de milieukunde. W. P. van Stockum & Zoon, The Hague.
3. Bahl J, Lau MCY, Smith GJD, Vijaykrishna D, Cary SC, Lacap DC, Lee CK, Papke RT, Warren-Rhodes KA, Wong FKY, McKay CP, Pointing SB (2011) Ancient origins determine global biogeography of hot and cold desert cyanobacteria. Nat Commun 2: 163.
4. Baker HG, Baker I (1986) The occurrence and significance of amino acids in floral nectar. Plant Syst Evol 151: 175-186.
5. Baker HG, Baker I (1987) The predictability of pollinator type by the chemistry of nectar. Am J Bot 74: 645.
6. Berkeley MJ (1863) The gardeners' chronicle & agricultural gazette, London, UK.
7. Boose DL (1997) Sources of variation in floral nectar production rate in Epilobium canum (Onagraceae): implications for natural selection. Oecologia 110: 493-500.
8. Brody JR, Kern SE (2004) Sodium boric acid: a Tris-free, cooler conductive medium for DNA electrophoresis. Biotechniques 36: 214-216.
9. Brysch-Herzberg M (2004) Ecology of yeasts in plant-bumblebee mutualism in Central Europe. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 50: 87-100.
10. Cain ML, Bowman WD, Hacker SD (2011) Ecology. Sinauer, Sunderland.
11. Carter C, Healy R, O'Tool NM, Naqvi SMS, Ren G, Park S, Beattie GA, Horner HT, Thornburg RW (2007) Tobacco nectaries express a novel NADPH oxidase implicated in the defense of floral reproductive tissues against microorganisms. Plant Physiol 143: 389-399.
12. Chazdon RL, Field CB (1987) Photographic estimation of photosynthetically active radiation: evaluation of a computerized technique. Oecologia 73: 525-532.
13. Colwell RR (1994) Breeding territories of the male Anna's hummingbirds at Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Biology 96 project, Jasper Ridge Paper, Stanford University.
14. de Vega C, Herrera CM, Johnson SD (2009) Yeasts in floral nectar of some South African plants: quantification and associations with pollinator type and sugar concentration. S Afr J Bot 75: 798-806.
15. Fenchel T (2003) Biogeography for bacteria. Science 301: 925-926.
16. Fetscher AE, Kohn JR (1999) Stigma behavior in Mimulus aurantiacus (Scrophulariaceae). Am J Bot 86: 1130-1135.
17. Fetscher AE, Rupert SM, Kohn JR (2002) Hummingbird foraging position is altered by the touch-sensitive stigma of bush monkeyflower. Oecologia 133: 551-558.
18. Fierer N, Jackson RB (2006) The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 103: 626-631.
19. Fierer N, Morse JL, Berthrong ST, Bernhardt ES, Jackson RB (2007) Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities. Ecology 88: 2162-2173.
20. Finlay BJ (2002) Global dispersal of free-living microbial eukaryote species. Science 296: 1061-1063.
21. Finlay BJ, Fenchel T (2004) Cosmopolitan metapopulations of free-living microbial eukaryotes. Protist 155: 237-244.
22. Gill FB (1988) Trapline foraging by hermit hummingbirds: competition for an undefended, renewable resource. Ecology 69: 1933-1942.
23. Golonka AM (2002) Nectar-inhabiting microorganisms (NIMs) and the dioecious plant species Silene latifolia. PhD dissertation, Duke University, Durham, NC.
24. Goslee SC, Urban DL (2007) The ecodist package for dissimilarity-based analysis of ecological data. J Stat Softw 22: 1-19.
25. Guindon S, Gascuel O (2003) A simple, fast, and accurate algorithm to estimate large phylogenies by maximum likelihood. Syst Biol 52: 696-704.
26. Herrera CM, García IM, Pérez R (2008) Invisible floral larcenies: microbial communities degrade floral nectar of bumble bee-pollinated plants. Ecology 89: 2369-2376.
27. Herrera CM, de Vega C, Canto A, Pozo MI (2009) Yeasts in floral nectar: a quantitative survey. Ann Bot 103: 1415-1423.
28. Herrera CM, Canto A, Pozo MI, Bazaga P (2010) Inhospitable sweetness: nectar filtering of pollinator-borne inocula leads to impoverished, phylogenetically clustered yeast communities. Proc R Soc B 277: 747-754.
29. Hosaka K, Castellano MA, Spatafora JW (2008) Biogeography of hysterangiales (Phallomycetidae, Basidiomycota). Mycol Res 112: 448-462.
30. Janzen DH (1971) Euglossine bees as long-distance pollinators of tropical plants. Science 171: 203-205.
31. Katoh K, Misawa K, Kuma K, Miyata T (2002) MAFFT: a novel method for rapid multiple sequence alignment based on fast Fourier transform. Nucleic Acids Res 30: 3059-3066.
32. Kurtzman CP, Robnett CJ (1998) Identification and phylogeny of ascomycetous yeasts from analysis of nuclear large subunit (26S) ribosomal DNA partial sequences. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek 73: 331-371.
33. Lachance M, Starmer WT, Rosa CA, Bowles JM, Barker JSF, Janzen DH (2001) Biogeography of the yeasts of ephemeral flowers and their insects. FEMS Yeast Res 1: 1-8.
34. Lachance MA, Daniel HM, Meyer W, Prasad GS, Gautam SP, Boundy-Mills K (2003) The D1/D2 domain of the large-subunit rDNA of the yeast species Clavispora lusitaniae is unusually polymorphic. FEMS Yeast Res 4: 253-258.
35. Lokvam J, Braddock JF (1999) Anti-bacterial function in the sexually dimorphic pollinator rewards of Clusia grandiflora (Clusiaceae). Oecologia 119: 534-540.
36. Lumbsch HT, Buchanan PK, May TW, Mueller GM (2008) Phylogeography and biogeography of fungi. Mycol Res 112: 423-424.
37. Mooney HA, Ehrlich PA, Lincoln DE, Williams KS (1980) Environmental controls on the seasonality of a drought deciduous shrub, Diplacus aurantiacus and its predator, the Checkerspot Butterfly, Euphydryas chalcedona. Oecologia 45: 143-146.
38. O'Donnell K (1993) Fusarium and its near relatives. In: Reynolds DR, Taylor JW (eds) The fungal holomorph: mitotic, meiotic and pleomorphic speciation in fungal systematics. CAB International, Wallingford, pp 225-233.
39. Oda Y, Star B, Huisman LA, Gottschal JC, Forney LJ (2003) Biogeography of the purple nonsulfur bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris. Appl Environ Microbiol 69: 5186-5191.
40. Oksanen L, Kindt R, Legendre P, O'Hara B, Simpson GL, Solymos P, Henry M, Stevens H, Wagner H (2008) Vegan: Community Ecology Package. R package version 1. 15-21. http://cran.r-project.org/, http://vegan.r-forge.r-project.org/.
41. Peay KG, Bruns TD, Kennedy PG, Bergemann SE, Garbelotto M (2007) A strong species-area relationship for eukaryotic soil microbes: Island size matters for ectomycorrhizal fungi. Ecol Lett 10: 470-480.
42. Peay KG, Belisle M, Fukami T (2011) Phylogenetic relatedness predicts priority effects in nectar yeast communities. Proc R Soc B. doi: 10. 1098/rspb. 2011. 1230.
43. Pozo MI, Herrera CM, Bazaga P (2011) Species richness of yeast communities in floral nectar of southern Spanish plants. Microb Ecol 61: 82-91.
44. Stiles FG (1975) Ecology, flowering phenology, and hummingbird pollination of some Costa Rican Heliconia species. Ecology 56: 285-301.
45. Streisfeld MA, Kohn JR (2007) Environment and pollinator-mediated selection on parapatric floral races of Mimulus aurantiacus. J Evol Biol 20: 122-132.
46. Suh S, Blackwell M, Kurtzman CP, Lachance M (2006) Phylogenetics of Saccharomycetales, the ascomycete yeasts. Mycologia 98: 1006-1017.
47. Telford RJ, Vandvik V, Birks HJB (2006) Dispersal limitations matter for microbial morphospecies. Science 312: 1015.
48. Whitaker RJ, Grogan DW, Taylor JW (2003) Geographic barriers isolate endemic populations of hyperthermophilic archaea. Science 301: 976-978.
49. Yarrow D (1998) Methods for the isolation, maintenance and identification of yeasts. In: Kurtzman CP, Fell JW (eds) The yeasts: a taxonomic study. Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp 77-100.