Explaining Evolutionary Shifts between Bee and Hummingbird Pollination: Convergence, Divergence, and Directionality

By James D. Thomson, P. Wilson. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL PLANT SCIENCES, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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Evolutionary Transitions in Floral Color (2008, background): “In many angiosperm taxa, bee pollination and blue-purple flowers are ancestral characters, while hummingbird pollination and the typical red/orange flowers associated with bird pollination are derived characters (see Ackermann and Weigend 2006; also see Thomson and Wilson 2008).”
Flower Evolution: The Origin and Subsequent Diversification of the Angiosperm Flower (2009, background): “…these theories have been empirically demonstrated in populations where a particular character can infer a shift in reproductive biology, leading to rapid loss of gene flow and subsequent isolation followed by character fixation (for recent reviews, see Fenster et al. 2004, Thomson & Wilson 2008).”
Comprehending crystalline β-carotene accumulation by comparing engineered cell models and the natural carotenoid-rich system of citrus (2011, unknown): “This type of shift often accompanies shifts in adaptation from bee to hummingbird, co-occurs with other floral adaptations that facilitate hummingbird pollination, and can arise repeatedly within a plant genus or family (Rausher, 2008; Thomson and Wilson, 2008).”
Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks (2017, background): “…hovering flight are likely to have favoured the diversification of hummingbird-pollinated plant species, because the evolutionary transition from small and delicate insect-pollinated to hummingbirdpollinated species was probably relatively simple (Castellanos et al., 2003; Thomson & Wilson, 2008).”