The evolution of plant–insect mutualisms

The evolution of plant–insect mutualisms - 2006 - Wiley Online Library

Here we review evolutionary features of three prominent insect–plant mutualisms: pollination, protection and seed dispersal.

The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms - PubMed

Mutualisms (cooperative interactions between species) have had a central role in the generation and maintenance of life on earth. Insects and plants are ...

The evolution of plant–insect mutualisms - Bronstein - 2006

Here we review evolutionary features of three prominent insect–plant mutualisms: pollination, protection and seed dispersal.

[PDF] The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms. | Semantic Scholar

Several features uniting very diverse insect-plant mutualisms are identified and their evolutionary implications are discussed: the involvement of one ...

Evolution of plant–pollinator mutualisms in response to climate change

We modeled a single population of flowering plants and a single population of pollinating insects. The focal plant is pollinated by and provides food resources ...

Mutualism as a Source of Evolutionary Innovation - SpringerLink

Mutualism with microorganisms has allowed several groups of animals to feed on plants. Indeed, plant tissues constitute a source of energy and ...

Mighty Mutualisms: The Nature of Plant-pollinator Interactions

Other insect species, such as yucca moths, lay their eggs within the yucca flowers they pollinate, and some, but not all, of the seeds produced are consumed by ...

: The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms - Tulane University

, : The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms ;; Bronstein, Judith L ;, ISSN: 0028-646X , 1469-8137 ;, The new phytologist. , 2006, Vol.172(3), p.412-428 ...

Better Together: Mutualistic Relationships Between Plants and Insects

Plants that have a mutualistic relationship with ants are called myrmecophytes, which means “ant-plant.” There are over 100 different species of myrmecophytes.

Bronstein, J.L., Alarcon, R. and Geber, M. (2006) The evolution of ...

Bronstein, J.L., Alarcon, R. and Geber, M. (2006) The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms. New Phytologist, 172, 412-428.

Evolutionary origins and diversification of mutualism

Although insect pol- lination mutualisms have long been implicated in flowering plant diversification (Darwin 1862), insect lineages comprising the contemporary ...

The variable effects of global change on insect mutualisms

For insect- plant mutualisms in particular, the response of plants to global change will influence their associated insects. For example, two disturbances ...

The evolution of plant cultivation by ants - Cell Press

Plant cultivation mutualisms are promising model systems to address many evolutionary and ecological questions in insect agriculture. Abstract.

Origin of a complex key innovation in an obligate insect–plant ...

The well known obligate pollination mutualism between yuccas and yucca moths is a major model system for studies of coevolution.

: The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms - University of Waterloo

The evolution of plant-insect mutualisms-article.

Evolution of Plant–Insect Interactions: Insights From ... - ResearchGate

... Strict co-speciation of insects and their host plants appears to be quite rare although closely related insects often feed on related plant species (Ehrlich ...

Mutualisms (Chapter 6) - Insect Ecology

Examples include the many cases of microbial symbionts of insects, as in termites and their protozoan and bacterial associates. But mutualisms need not be ...

Insect and Plant Interactions - University of Florida

Plants evolved onto land before insects, and when insects followed ... There are three types of insect/plant mutualistic relationships we will discuss.

The variable effects of global change on insect mutualisms

Insect mutualisms are essential for reproduction of many plants, protection of plants and other insects, and provisioning of nutrients for insects.

Nectar in Plant–Insect Mutualistic Relationships: From Food Reward ...

Plants may also engage in mutualistic relationships with arthropods, such as ants, wasps, spiders, mites, and parasitoids, that patrol the plant and deter or ...