The evolution of floral traits in animal-pollinated plants involves the interaction between
flowers as signal senders and pollinators as signal receivers. Flower colors are very diverse …

The removal of pollen by flower‐visiting insects is costly to plants, not only in terms of
production, but also via lost reproductive potential. Modern angiosperms have evolved …

Previous studies have considered floral humidity to be an inadvertent consequence of
nectar evaporation, which could be exploited as a cue by nectar-seeking pollinators. By …

Colour signals are the main floral trait for plant–pollinator communication. Owing to visual
specificities, flower visitors exert different selective pressures on flower colour signals of …

The coloration of flowers is due to the wavelength-selective absorption by pigments of light
backscattered by structures inside the petals. We investigated the optical properties of …

Bees discriminate between many different colours of flower petals, but it is not well
understood how they perceive and learn patterns frequently found in flowers with colourful …

Plant phenotypic plasticity in response to antagonists can affect other community members
such as mutualists, conferring potential ecological costs associated with inducible plant …

The high variability observed in floral traits has been interpreted as resulting from the
adaptation of plants to pollinators, as the latter present innate preferences for specific floral …

Colourful spots, stripes and rings decorate the corolla of most flowering plants and fulfil
important biotic and abiotic functions. Spatial differences in the pigmentation of epidermal …

A striking feature of the angiosperms that use animals as pollen carriers to sexually
reproduce is the great diversity of their flowers with regard to morphology and traits such as …