ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2014
Intraspecific divergence and convergence of floral tube length in specialized pollination interactions.
Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed.
- Phylogenomics reveals the evolution of floral traits associated with pollinators and pollinator-prey conflict within the carnivorous Pinguicula subgenus Temnoceras.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- Ecological niche differentiation mediates near complete premating reproductive isolation within the Gladiolus carneus (Iridaceae) species complex.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Beyond the Grant-Stebbins model: floral adaptive landscapes and plant speciation.Annals of botany · 2025Review
- Geographical variation in flower colour of a food-deceptive orchid reflects local pollinator preferences.Annals of botany · 2025Article
- Pollination ecotypes and the origin of plant species.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Review
- Opposing effects of plant traits on diversification.iScience · 2023Review
- Pollinator Proboscis Length Plays a Key Role in Floral Integration of Honeysuckle Flowers (Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Intraspecific independent evolution of floral spur length in response to local flower visitor size in JapaneseEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- Trade-off mitigation: a conceptual framework for understanding floral adaptation in multispecies interactions.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2021Article
- Intraspecific convergence of floral size correlates with pollinator size on different mountains: a case study of a bumblebee-pollinated Lamium (Lamiaceae) flowers in Japan.BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Habitat generalist species constrain the diversity of mimicry rings in heterogeneous habitats.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Article
- Global warming and plant-pollinator mismatches.Emerging topics in life sciences · 2020Review
- Patterns of floral morphology in relation to climate and floral visitors.Annals of botany · 2020Article
- Geographic variation of reproductive traits and competition for pollinators in a bird-pollinated plant.Ecology and evolution · 2019Article
- Plant-pollinator interactions along the pathway to paternity.Annals of botany · 2019Review
- Contrasting lengths of Pelargonium floral nectar tubes result from late differences in rate and duration of growth.Annals of botany · 2018Article
- Gene flow and metacommunity arrangement affects coevolutionary dynamics at the mutualism-antagonism interface.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2017Article
- Animal choruses emerge from receiver psychology.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Editorial 2015.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Floral tubes are often thought to be a consequence of adaptive specialization towards pollinator morphology. We explore floral tube length evolution within Tritoniopsis revoluta (Iridaceae), a species with considerable geographical tube length variation. We ask whether tube lengths of T. revoluta populations are associated with pollinator proboscis lengths, whether floral divergence occurs in the presence of different pollinators and whether floral convergence occurs between distantly related populations pollinated by the same pollinator. Finally, we ask whether tube length evolution is directional. Shifts between morphologically different pollinators were always associated with shifts in floral morphology, even when populations were very closely related. Distantly related populations had similar tube lengths when they were pollinated by the same pollinator. Shifts in tube length tended to be from short to long, although reversals were not infrequent. After correcting for the population-level phylogeny, there was a strong positive, linear relationship between floral tube length and pollinator proboscis length, suggesting that plants are functionally specialized on different pollinators at different sites. However, because tube length evolution in this system can be a bidirectional process, specialization to the local pollinator fauna is unlikely to result in evolutionary or ecological dead-ends such as canalization or range limitation.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.