ArticleScience advances2018
Fruit scent as an evolved signal to primate seed dispersal.
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- Aerobiology of the Family Lamiaceae: Novel Perspectives with Special Reference to Volatiles Emission.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Seed dispersal syndrome predicts ethanol concentration of fruits in a tropical dry forest.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Fruit scent as an honest signal for fruit quality.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- The illusiveness of seed dispersal syndromes. A commentary on: Fleshy fruit traits and seed dispersers: which traits define syndromes?Annals of botany · 2022Article
- Fruit Fly Larval Survival in Picked and Unpicked Tomato Fruit of Differing Ripeness and Associated Gene Expression Patterns.Insects · 2022Article
- Non-visual senses in fruit selection by the mantled howler monkey (Alouatta palliata).Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Dietary ethanol ingestion by free-ranging spider monkeysRoyal Society open science · 2022Article
- Transcripts switched off at the stop of phloem unloading highlight the energy efficiency of sugar import in the ripening V. vinifera fruit.Horticulture research · 2021Article
- Fruit odorants mediate co-specialization in a multispecies plant-animal mutualism.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Insights from macroevolutionary modelling and ancestral state reconstruction into the radiation and historical dietary ecology of Lemuriformes (Primates, Mammalia).BMC ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- The evolution of fruit scent: phylogenetic and developmental constraints.BMC evolutionary biology · 2020Article
- Sweet tooth: Elephants detect fruit sugar levels based on scent alone.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
The tremendous diversity of floral and fruit traits is, to a large extent, a set of adaptations that promote plant reproduction through animal pollinators and seed dispersers. Yet, it is still unknown whether fruit scent is a by-product of fruit maturation or an evolved communication channel with animal mutualists. We show that in species that specialize on seed dispersal by lemurs-an olfactorily oriented primate-fruits increase scent production and change their chemical composition significantly more than sympatric species whose seeds are largely dispersed by birds. We further show that lemurs use these shifts in fruit scent to identify ripe fruits. These results show that fruit scent is an evolved communication system that facilitates animal-plant mutualism.
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