Pollinator behaviour has profound effects on plant mating. Pollinators are predicted to
minimise energetic costs during foraging bouts by moving between nearby flowers …

Explanations of floral adaptation to diverse pollinator faunas have often invoked visitor‐
mediated trade‐offs in which no intermediate, generalized floral phenotype is optimal for …

Inferences about past processes of adaptation and speciation require a gene-scale and
genome-wide understanding of the evolutionary history of diverging taxa. In this study, we …

Understanding the molecular basis of reproductive isolation and speciation is a key goal of
evolutionary genetics. In the South American genus Petunia, the R2R3-MYB transcription …

One of the reasons why flowering plants became the most diverse group of land plants is
their association with animals to reproduce. The earliest examples of this mutualism …

Interactions with animal pollinators have helped shape the stunning diversity of flower
morphologies across the angiosperms. A common evolutionary consequence of these …

Aims Bee-pollinated flowers are rarely red, presumably because bees (which lack red
receptors) have difficulty detecting red targets. Although the response of bees to red colour …

Floral traits are used as signals to attract pollinators and play an important role in species
identification and isolation. Nicotiana is a genus with a diverse range of flower …

Flower signals of bee-and bird-pollinated plants have converged via pollinator-mediated
evolution, driven by the visual system of their respective pollinators. For bird flowers, sensory …

Abstract Background and Aims Growing experimental evidence that floral scent is a key
contributor to pollinator attraction supports its investigation as a component of the suite of …