Flower color evolution and the evidence of pollinator-mediated selection

J Trunschke, K Lunau, GH Pyke, ZX Ren… - Frontiers in plant …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
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 paradox of iridescent signals

D Stuart-Fox, L Ospina-Rozo, L Ng… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Signals reliably convey information to a receiver. To be reliable, differences between
individuals in signal properties must be consistent and easily perceived and evaluated by …

Comparison of the effects of extraction method and solvents on biological activities of phytochemicals from selected violet and blue pigmented flowers

K Żbik, A Onopiuk, A Szpicer, M Kurek - Journal of Food Measurement and …, 2023 - Springer
The flowers of many plant species are characterized by intense color and richness of
bioactive compounds. They can be their valuable and curious sources that are worth …

Honesty, reliability, and information content of floral signals

CJ van der Kooi, L Reuvers, J Spaethe - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Plants advertise their presence by displaying attractive flowers, which pollinators use to
locate a floral reward. Understanding how floral traits scale with reward status lies at the …

Psychophysics of the hoverfly: categorical or continuous color discrimination?

L Hannah, AG Dyer, JE Garcia, A Dorin… - Current zoology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
There is increasing interest in flies as potentially important pollinators. Flies are known to
have a complex visual system, including 4 spectral classes of photoreceptors that contribute …

Colour evolution within orchids depends on whether the pollinator is a bee or a fly

M Shrestha, M Burd, JE Garcia, A Dorin… - Plant Biology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Orchids are a classic angiosperm model for understanding biotic pollination. We studied
orchid species within two species‐rich herbaceous communities that are known to have …

Inbreeding in a dioecious plant has sex-and population origin-specific effects on its interactions with pollinators

K Schrieber, SC Paul, LV Höche, AC Salas, R Didszun… - Elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
We study the effects of inbreeding in a dioecious plant on its interaction with pollinating
insects and test whether the magnitude of such effects is shaped by plant individual sex and …

Cognitive ecology of pollinators and the main determinants of foraging plasticity

D Baracchi - Current Zoology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
The long-lasting coevolution between flowering plants and associate pollinators has made
both partners intimately connected and reciprocally dependent on one another (Chittka and …

Wild non-eusocial bees learn a colour discrimination task in response to simulated predation events

SR Howard - The Science of Nature, 2021 - Springer
Despite representing the majority of bee species, non-eusocial bees (eg solitary, subsocial,
semisocial, and quasisocial species) are comparatively understudied in learning, memory …

Biomimetic macroscopic hierarchical moire gratings

M Mazloumi, Y Bdour, C Escobedo, RG Sabat - Applied Optics, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Large-scale hierarchical macroscopic moire gratings resembling the surface structure of
Peruvian lily flower petals are fabricated on azobenzene molecular glass thin films using a …