The roles of pollinators in hybridization between two Rhinanthus species
(2014) Joint Annual Meeting British Ecological Society - Société française d’écologie — Location: Lille, France (9.December.2014)
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- Biotic pollination is thought to have played an important role in the diversification of the angiosperms, one of the driving factors for speciation. The role of pollinators has often been studied in species pairs with constrasting flower shape and colour, often emphasizing reproductive isolation brought about by the difference in pollinator assemblage. Much less is known about situations where the two hybridizing plant species share the same pollinator guild, and thus have more opportunities for hybridization. The occurrence of hybridization in the genus Rhinanthus (Orobanchaceae), annual hemi-parasitic grassland species pollinated by bumblebees, has been reported since Linnaeus, and we have performed extensive research on hybridization in the species pair Rhinanthus minor – R. angustifolius since 2000. This talk aims to give an overview of the data we have thus far collected on the effects of bumblebee behaviour on the formation of first- and advanced-generation hybrids, look at the expected effects on the long term and discuss the role of differences in selfing rate between the two species.
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Natalis, L., Ducarme, V., Vrancken, J., & Wesselingh, R. (2014). The roles of pollinators in hybridization between two Rhinanthus species. Joint Annual Meeting British Ecological Society - Société française d’écologie, Lille, France. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/62788