Mating System Evolution under Strong Pollen Limitation : Evidence of Disruptive Selection through Male and Female Fitness in Clarkia xantiana

Selection on floral traits in hermaphroditic plants is determined by both male and female reproductive success. However, predictions regarding floral trait and mating system evolution are often based solely on female fitness. Selection via male fitness has the potential to affect the outcomes of floral evolution. In this study, we used paternity analysis to assess individual selfing rates and selection on floral traits via male and female fitness in an experimental population of Clarkia xantiana where pollen limitation of seed set was strong. We detected selection through both female and male fitness with reinforcing or noninterfering patterns of selection through the two sex functions. For female fitness, selection favored reduced herkogamy and protandry, traits that promote increased autonomous selfing. For male fitness, selection on petal area was disruptive, with higher trait values conferring greater pollinator attraction and outcross siring success and smaller trait values leading to higher selfed siring success. Combining both female and male fitness, selection on petal area and protandry was disruptive because intermediate phenotypes were less successful as both males and females. Finally, functional relationships among male and female fertility components indicated that selfing resulted in seed discounting and pollen discounting. Under these functional relationships, the evolutionarily stable selfing rate can be intermediate or predominantly selfing or outcrossing, depending on the segregating load of deleterious mutations.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2017

Erschienen:

2017

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:189

Enthalten in:

The American naturalist - 189(2017), 5 vom: 10. Mai, Seite 549-563

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Briscoe Runquist, Ryan D [VerfasserIn]
Geber, Monica A [VerfasserIn]
Pickett-Leonard, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Moeller, David A [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Bateman’s principle
Inbreeding depression
Journal Article
Paternity analysis
Reproductive assurance
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Selfing and outcrossing
Sexual selection

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Date Completed 03.05.2017

Date Revised 18.03.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1086/691192

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM270972110