Hybridization and speciation in angiosperms: a role for pollinator shifts?

BMC Biology

Commentary

Mark W Chase¹  Michael F Fay¹  Ovidiu Paun¹ 

[1] Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, TW9 3DS, Richmond, Surrey, UK;

关键词: Parental Species;    Reproductive Isolation;    Pollination Syndrome;    Genetic Introgression;    Parental Taxon;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1741-7007-8-45

 received in 2010-04-13, accepted in 2010-04-21,  发布年份 2010

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

The majority of convincingly documented cases of hybridization in angiosperms has involved genetic introgression between the parental species or formation of a hybrid species with increased ploidy; however, homoploid (diploid) hybridization may be just as common. Recent studies, including one in BMC Evolutionary Biology, show that pollinator shifts can play a role in both mechanisms of hybrid speciation.See research article http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/103

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© Chase et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2010. This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.