The role of pollinators in the evolution of corolla shape variation, disparity and integration in a highly diversified plant family with a conserved floral bauplan

Annals of Botany

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 889-904

  Gómez, José M ^a,b   Torices, Ruben ^a,c   Lorite, Juan ^b   Klingenberg, Christian Peter ^d   Perfectti, Francisco ^b  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brassicaceae; canalization; corolla shape; floral morphospace; geometric morphometrics; phenotypic disparity; phenotypic integration; plant pollinator interactions; robustness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; BODY SHAPE; EVOLUTION; FLORAL TRAIT; GEOMETRY; MORPHOMETRY; NICHE; PHYLOGENETICS; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR;

APOIDEA; BRASSICACEAE; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; BRASSICACEAE; EVOLUTION; FLOWER; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BRASSICACEAE; FLOWERS; PHYLOGENY; POLLINATION;

EID: 84964959545     PISSN: 03057364     EISSN: 10958290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aob/mcv194     Document Type: Article

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