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Citation title: " Evolution of pollination by frugivorous birds in Neotropical Myrtaceae".

Study name: " Evolution of pollination by frugivorous birds in Neotropical Myrtaceae".

This study is part of submission 22811 (Status: Published).

Citation

Nadra M.G., Giannini N.P., Acosta J.M., & Aagesen L. 2018. Evolution of pollination by frugivorous birds in Neotropical Myrtaceae. PeerJ, .

Authors

Nadra M.G. 3814054927
Giannini N.P.
Acosta J.M. (submitter)
Aagesen L.

Abstract

Bird pollination is relatively common in the tropics, and especially so in the Americas. In the Neotropical tribe Myrteae (Myrtaceae), species of two genera, Acca and Myrrhinium, offer fleshy, sugary petals to the consumption of birds that otherwise eat fruits, thus pollinating the plants in an unusual plant-animal interaction: fruit-bird ornithophily. The phylogenetic position of these genera has been problematic, and so it was the understanding of the evolution of this interaction. Here we include new sequences of Myrrhinium atropurpureum in a comprehensive molecular phylogeny based on two plastid and two nuclear markers, with the aim of providing the historical framework of the fruitbird ornithophily syndrome. We developed and scored 13 flower and inflorescence characters that depict the macroscopic morphological components of this syndrome. Bayesian and parsimony phylogenies concur in placing both Acca and Myrrhinium in a clade with Psidium species; with Myrrhinium sister to Psidium. Mapping of morphological characters indicated some degree of convergence (e.g., fleshy petals, purplish display) but also considerable divergence in key characters that point to rather opposing pollination strategies and also different degrees of specialization in Acca versus Myrrhinium. Fruit-bird ornithophily represents a special case of mutualism that highlights the evolutionary complexities of plant-animal interactions

Keywords

Myrtaceae - Acca - Myrrhinium - fleshy petals

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		@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref28678,
	 author = {Maria Gabriela Nadra and Norberto Pedro Giannini and Juan Manuel Acosta and Lone  Aagesen},
	 title = { Evolution of pollination by frugivorous birds in Neotropical Myrtaceae},
	 year = {2018},
	 keywords = {Myrtaceae - Acca - Myrrhinium - fleshy petals},
	 doi = {},
	 url = {http://},
	 pmid = {},
	 journal = {PeerJ},
	 volume = {},
	 number = {},
	 pages = {},
	 abstract = {Bird pollination is relatively common in the tropics, and especially so in the Americas. In
the Neotropical tribe Myrteae (Myrtaceae), species of two genera, Acca and Myrrhinium,
offer fleshy, sugary petals to the consumption of birds that otherwise eat fruits, thus
pollinating the plants in an unusual plant-animal interaction: fruit-bird ornithophily. The
phylogenetic position of these genera has been problematic, and so it was the
understanding of the evolution of this interaction. Here we include new sequences of
Myrrhinium atropurpureum in a comprehensive molecular phylogeny based on two plastid
and two nuclear markers, with the aim of providing the historical framework of the fruitbird
ornithophily syndrome. We developed and scored 13 flower and inflorescence
characters that depict the macroscopic morphological components of this syndrome.
Bayesian and parsimony phylogenies concur in placing both Acca and Myrrhinium in a
clade with Psidium species; with Myrrhinium sister to Psidium. Mapping of morphological
characters indicated some degree of convergence (e.g., fleshy petals, purplish display) but
also considerable divergence in key characters that point to rather opposing pollination
strategies and also different degrees of specialization in Acca versus Myrrhinium. Fruit-bird
ornithophily represents a special case of mutualism that highlights the evolutionary
complexities of plant-animal interactions}
}

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		TY  - JOUR
ID  - 28678
AU  - Nadra,Maria Gabriela
AU  - Giannini,Norberto Pedro
AU  - Acosta,Juan Manuel
AU  - Aagesen,Lone 
T1  -  Evolution of pollination by frugivorous birds in Neotropical Myrtaceae
PY  - 2018
KW  - Myrtaceae - Acca - Myrrhinium - fleshy petals
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
N2  - Bird pollination is relatively common in the tropics, and especially so in the Americas. In
the Neotropical tribe Myrteae (Myrtaceae), species of two genera, Acca and Myrrhinium,
offer fleshy, sugary petals to the consumption of birds that otherwise eat fruits, thus
pollinating the plants in an unusual plant-animal interaction: fruit-bird ornithophily. The
phylogenetic position of these genera has been problematic, and so it was the
understanding of the evolution of this interaction. Here we include new sequences of
Myrrhinium atropurpureum in a comprehensive molecular phylogeny based on two plastid
and two nuclear markers, with the aim of providing the historical framework of the fruitbird
ornithophily syndrome. We developed and scored 13 flower and inflorescence
characters that depict the macroscopic morphological components of this syndrome.
Bayesian and parsimony phylogenies concur in placing both Acca and Myrrhinium in a
clade with Psidium species; with Myrrhinium sister to Psidium. Mapping of morphological
characters indicated some degree of convergence (e.g., fleshy petals, purplish display) but
also considerable divergence in key characters that point to rather opposing pollination
strategies and also different degrees of specialization in Acca versus Myrrhinium. Fruit-bird
ornithophily represents a special case of mutualism that highlights the evolutionary
complexities of plant-animal interactions
L3  - 
JF  - PeerJ
VL  - 
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ER  -