Evolvability and trait function predict phenotypic divergence of plant populations

ØH Opedal, WS Armbruster… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Understanding the causes and limits of population divergence in phenotypic traits is a
fundamental aim of evolutionary biology, with the potential to yield predictions of adaptation …

Pollinator‐mediated effects of landscape‐scale land use on grassland plant community composition and ecosystem functioning–seven hypotheses

V Hederström, J Ekroos, M Friberg, T Krausl… - Biological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental change is disrupting mutualisms between organisms worldwide. Reported
declines in insect populations and changes in pollinator community compositions in …

Can heterosis and inbreeding depression explain the maintenance of outcrossing in a cleistogamous perennial?

TY Soto, JD Rojas‐Gutierrez… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Premise What maintains mixed mating is an evolutionary enigma. Cleistogamy—the
production of both potentially outcrossing chasmogamous and obligately selfing …

Fitness consequences of hybridization in a predominantly selfing species: insights into the role of dominance and epistatic incompatibilities

J Clo, J Ronfort, L Gay - Heredity, 2021 - nature.com
Studying the consequences of hybridization on plant performance is insightful to understand
the adaptive potential of populations, notably at local scales. Due to reduced effective …

Evolutionary potential under heat and drought stress at the southern range edge of North American Arabidopsis lyrata

J Heblack, JR Schepers, Y Willi - Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The warm edges of species' distributions are vulnerable to global warming. Evidence is the
recent range retraction from there found in many species. It is unclear why populations …

The fate of recessive deleterious or overdominant mutations near mating-type loci under partial selfing

E Tezenas, T Giraud, A Véber… - Peer Community …, 2023 - peercommunityjournal.org
Large regions of suppressed recombination having extended over time occur in many
organisms around genes involved in mating compatibility (sex-determining or mating-type …

The potential for floral evolution in response to competing selection pressures following the loss of hawkmoth pollination in Ruellia humilis

JS Heywood, JS Michalski, BK McCann… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Premise In the absence of hawkmoth pollinators, chasmogamous (CH) flowers of Ruellia
humilis self‐pollinate by two secondary mechanisms. Other floral visitors might exert …

Ploidy effects on the relationship between floral phenotype, reproductive investment, and fitness in an autogamous species complex

A García‐Muñoz, C Ferrón… - American Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Premise The relationships between reproductive investment, phenotype, and fitness have
been broadly studied in cross‐pollinated plants in contrast to selfing species, which are …

[PDF][PDF] Evolvability, sexual selection, and mating strategies

J Sztepanacz, J Clo, Ø Opedal - Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in …, 2023 - hal.science
This chapter considers how variation in mating systems affects evolvability in populations
and how we should estimate it. Most models considered in evolutionary quantitative ge ne …

Polyploidization: Consequences of genome doubling on the evolutionary potential of populations

J Clo - American Journal of Botany, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome duplication is common in plants and is considered to have a broad range of
effects on individuals' phenotypes and genomes and to be an important driver of plant …