ReviewThe New phytologist2014
The floral morphospace--a modern comparative approach to study angiosperm evolution.
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- The seed morphospace, a new contribution towards the multidimensional study of angiosperm sexual reproductive biology.Annals of botany · 2024Article
- Disparity of cycad leaves dispels the living fossil metaphor.Communications biology · 2024Article
- Angiosperm flowers reached their highest morphological diversity early in their evolutionary history.The New phytologist · 2024Article
- Extinction and morphospace occupation: A critical review.Cambridge prisms. Extinction · 2023Review
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- Global patterns and a latitudinal gradient of flower disparity: perspectives from the angiosperm order Ericales.The New phytologist · 2021Article
- A Grand Challenge in Development and Evodevo: Quantifying the Role of Development in Evolution.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Pollinators drive floral evolution in an Atlantic Forest genus.AoB PLANTS · 2020Article
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- Flower Diversification Across "Pollinator Climates": Sensory Aspects of Corolla Color Evolution in the Florally Diverse South American GenusFrontiers in plant science · 2020Article
- Tracking temporal shifts in area, biomes, and pollinators in the radiation of Salvia (sages) across continents: leveraging anchored hybrid enrichment and targeted sequence data.American journal of botany · 2019Article
- Testing the impact of morphological rate heterogeneity on ancestral state reconstruction of five floral traits in angiosperms.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- The evolution of genomic and epigenomic features in two Pleurotus fungi.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Understanding the role of floral development in the evolution of angiosperm flowers: clarifications from a historical and physico-dynamic perspective.Journal of plant research · 2018Review
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Abstract
Morphospaces are mathematical representations used for studying the evolution of morphological diversity and for the evaluation of evolved shapes among theoretically possible ones. Although widely used in zoology, they--with few exceptions--have been disregarded in plant science and in particular in the study of broad-scale patterns of floral structure and evolution. Here we provide basic information on the morphospace approach; we review earlier morphospace applications in plant science; and as a practical example, we construct and analyze a floral morphospace. Morphospaces are usually visualized with the help of ordination methods such as principal component analysis (PCA) or nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS). The results of these analyses are then coupled with disparity indices that describe the spread of taxa in the space. We discuss these methods and apply modern statistical tools to the first and only angiosperm-wide floral morphospace published by Stebbins in 1951. Despite the incompleteness of Stebbins’ original dataset, our analyses highlight major, angiosperm-wide trends in the diversity of flower morphology and thereby demonstrate the power of this previously neglected approach in plant science.
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