Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution of Carrion-Associated Arthropods

Picard, Christine; Parrott, Jonathan J.; Whale, John W.

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“…Members of the Diptera genera trapped in R. torulosa flowers are known to use rotting organic material or fungi as oviposition sites or food sources (see [ 19 ] and references therein). The flowers of many other plants pollinated by similar Diptera are sapromyiophilous and, to the human nose, emit unpleasant acidic, foul, or mushroom-like odours (see [ 28 , 31 , 45 ]; own observation for Ceropegia ), presumably to mimic oviposition sites or food sources for such flies [ 46 , 47 ]. However, the flowers of R. torulosa emit a faint sweet-fruity and slightly woody scent, which is not typical for oviposition site mimicry [ 47 ], and the chemical profile documented here does not fit a typical sapromyiophilous syndrome [ 48 , 49 ].…”

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Fly Pollination of Kettle Trap Flowers of Riocreuxia torulosa (Ceropegieae-Anisotominae): A Generalized System of Floral Deception

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Meve

Menzel

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Elaborated kettle trap flowers to temporarily detain pollinators evolved independently in several angiosperm lineages. Intensive research on species of Aristolochia and Ceropegia recently illuminated how these specialized trap flowers attract particular pollinators through chemical deception. Morphologically similar trap flowers evolved in Riocreuxia; however, no data about floral rewards, pollinators, and chemical ecology were available for this plant group. Here we provide data on pollination ecology and floral chemistry of R. torulosa. Specifically, we determined flower visitors and pollinators, assessed pollen transfer efficiency, and analysed floral scent chemistry. R. torulosa flowers are myiophilous and predominantly pollinated by Nematocera. Pollinating Diptera included, in order of decreasing abundance, male and female Sciaridae, Ceratopogonidae, Scatopsidae, Chloropidae, and Phoridae. Approximately 16% of pollen removed from flowers was successfully exported to conspecific stigmas. The flowers emitted mainly ubiquitous terpenoids, most abundantly linalool, furanoid (Z)-linalool oxide, and (E)-β-ocimene—compounds typical of rewarding flowers and fruits. R. torulosa can be considered to use generalized food (and possibly also brood-site) deception to lure small nematocerous Diptera into their flowers. These results suggest that R. torulosa has a less specific pollination system than previously reported for other kettle trap flowers but is nevertheless specialized at the level of Diptera suborder Nematocera.

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Fly Pollination of Kettle Trap Flowers of Riocreuxia torulosa (Ceropegieae-Anisotominae): A Generalized System of Floral Deception

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Meve

Menzel

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“…Similar variation in substrate cues based on time, abiotic environment (e.g. moisture, temperature), microbial communities and arrival of different insect taxa has been documented in carcass decomposition (Dupras et al ., ; Pechal et al ., ), and may play important roles in floral mimicry of fruit substrates (Jürgens & Shuttleworth, ).…”

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“…There has been a recent increase of documented mimicry types, careful examination of ecologically relevant models, and exploration of evolutionary patterns associated with the floral phenotypes and pollinating taxa involved (e.g. Jin et al ., ; Martos et al ., ; Oelschlägel et al ., ; Sinn et al ., ; Johnson & Schiestl, ; Jürgens & Shuttleworth, ). A growing body of research has reported floral mimicry of insects, vertebrate animal substrates (e.g.…”

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Pollination systems involving floral mimicry of fruit: aspects of their ecology and evolution

Goodrich

Jürgens

2017

New Phytologist

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Floral mimicry of nonfloral resources is found across many angiosperm families, with mimicry of varied models including carrion, dung, fungi, insects and fruit. These systems provide excellent models to investigate the role of visual and olfactory cues for the ecology and evolution of plant-animal interactions. Interestingly, floral mimicry of fruit is least documented in the literature, although ripe or rotting fruits play an important role as a food or brood site in many insect groups such as Diptera, Hymenoptera and Coleoptera, and frugivorous vertebrates such as bats and birds. In ecosystems where fruit represents a frequent, reliable resource (e.g. tropical forests), this form of floral mimicry could represent a common mimicry class with specialization possible along multiple axes such as fruit of different species, stages of ripeness and microbial colonization. In this review, we summarize current research on floral mimicry of fruit. We place this review in the context of floral mimicry of a broader spectrum of nonfloral resources, and we discuss conceptual frameworks of mimicry vs generalized food deception or pre-existing sensory bias. Finally, we briefly review the specificity and complexity of fruit-insect ecological interactions, and we summarize important considerations and questions for moving forward in this field.

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On the Air: Broadcasting and Reception of Volatile Messages in Brood-Site Pollination Mutualisms

Borges

2016

Signaling and Communication in Plants

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Population Genetics and Molecular Evolution of Carrion-Associated Arthropods

Cited by 17 publications

References 116 publications

Fly Pollination of Kettle Trap Flowers of Riocreuxia torulosa (Ceropegieae-Anisotominae): A Generalized System of Floral Deception

Fly Pollination of Kettle Trap Flowers of Riocreuxia torulosa (Ceropegieae-Anisotominae): A Generalized System of Floral Deception

Pollination systems involving floral mimicry of fruit: aspects of their ecology and evolution

On the Air: Broadcasting and Reception of Volatile Messages in Brood-Site Pollination Mutualisms

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