ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021
Florivory of Early Cretaceous flowers by functionally diverse insects: implications for early angiosperm pollination.
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- Resilience of floral scent emission after florivory.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Ants as Flower Visitors: Diversity and Network Structure Assessed for the First Time in the Atlantic Forest of Southern Brazil.Neotropical entomology · 2025Article
- A newly evolved small secretory peptide enhances mechanical properties of spider silk.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Evolutionary implications of a deep-time perspective on insect pollination.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- The impact of thermogenesis on the origin of insect pollination.Nature plants · 2024Review
- Effects of Florivory on Floral Visitors and Reproductive Success ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- DiverseHorticulture research · 2023Article
- Pollen Molecular Identification from a Long-Distance Migratory Insect,International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Density-Dependent Effects of Simultaneous Root and Floral Herbivory on Plant Fitness and Defense.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Geographical and life-history traits associated with low and high species richness across angiosperm families.Frontiers in plant science · 2023Article
- Data, metrics, and methods for arthropod and fungal herbivory at the dawn of angiosperm diversification: The Rose Creek plant assemblage of Nebraska, U.S.A.Data in brief · 2022Article
- Florivory and Pollination Intersection: Changes in Floral Trait Expression Do Not Discourage Hummingbird Pollination.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Florivory (flower consumption) occurs worldwide in modern angiosperms, associated with pollen and nectar consumption. However, florivory remains unrecorded from fossil flowers since their Early Cretaceous appearance. We test hypotheses that earliest angiosperms were pollinated by a diverse insect fauna by evaluating 7858 plants from eight localities of the latest Albian Dakota Formation from midcontinental North America, in which 645 specimens (8.2%) were flowers or inflorescences. Well-preserved specimens were categorized into 32 morphotypes, nine of which displayed 207 instances of damage from 11 insect damage types (DTs) by four functional-feeding groups of hole feeding, margin feeding, surface feeding and piercing-and-sucking. We assessed the same DTs inflicted by known florivores on modern flowers that also are their pollinators, and associated insect mouthpart types causing such damage. The diverse, Dakota florivore-pollinator community showed a local pattern at Braun's Ranch of flower morphotypes 4 and 5 having piercing-and-sucking as dominant and margin feeding as minor interactions, whereas
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