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Heteranthery occurs in flowers offering food bodies or nectar rather than pollen.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee1
Outcome: heteranthery occurs in flowers offering rewards other than pollene0

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“heteranthery occurs in flowers offering rewards other than pollen, such as staminal food bodies or nectar”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 780–885

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“63 species of the tribe Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 690–742

Title

Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery

Agnes Sophie Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Diana Margoth Fernández‐Fernández; et al. Evolution 2021. doi:10.1111/evo.14260

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Heteranthery evolved repeatedly de novo in food-body-rewarding, passerine-pollinated flowers.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee1
Interactor: passerinese2pollinator
Outcome: heteranthery has evolved repeatedly de novoe0

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“heteranthery has evolved repeatedly de novo in food-body-rewarding, passerine-pollinated flowers”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 962–1058

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“63 species of the tribe Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 690–742

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“foraging passerines”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1102–1121

Title

Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery

Agnes Sophie Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Diana Margoth Fernández‐Fernández; et al. Evolution 2021. doi:10.1111/evo.14260

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Foraging passerines discriminated between stamen types and removed large stamens more quickly than small stamens.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee1
Interactor: passerinese0pollinator
Outcome: removed large stamens more quickly than small stamense0
Direction: more quicklye0

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“foraging passerines discriminated between stamen types and removed large stamens more quickly than small stamens”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1102–1214

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“63 species of the tribe Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 690–742

Title

Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery

Agnes Sophie Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Diana Margoth Fernández‐Fernández; et al. Evolution 2021. doi:10.1111/evo.14260

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Passerines removed small stamens on separate visits late in anthesis.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee1
Organ / stage: flower anthesise0
Interactor: Passerinese0pollinator
Outcome: removed small stamens on separate visitse0

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“Passerines removed small stamens on separate visits towards the end of flower anthesis”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1216–1302

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“63 species of the tribe Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 690–742

Title

Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery

Agnes Sophie Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Diana Margoth Fernández‐Fernández; et al. Evolution 2021. doi:10.1111/evo.14260

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Mechanismhypothesisoriginal resultmeasured

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The authors propose that increased nutritive content of small stamens raises chances of outcross-pollen transfer.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee1
Organ / stage: small stamense0
Outcome: outcross-pollen transfere0
Qualifier: staggered increase in nutritive contente0

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“staggered increase in nutritive content of small stamens functions to increase chances for outcross-pollen transfer”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 1324–1439

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“63 species of the tribe Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 690–742

Title

Stamen dimorphism in bird‐pollinated flowers: Investigating alternative hypotheses on the evolution of heteranthery

Agnes Sophie Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Diana Margoth Fernández‐Fernández; et al. Evolution 2021. doi:10.1111/evo.14260

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Floral modularity patterns in Merianieae changed during pollinator shifts.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee0
Treatment: pollinator shiftse1
Interactor: pollinatorse1pollinator
Outcome: patterns of floral modularitye1
Direction: changede1

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“Our analyses of tomography-based 3-dimensional flower models show that pollinators selected for functional modules across developmental units and that patterns of floral modularity changed during pollinator shifts”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 554–767

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“floral modularity and shape evolution in Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 323–392

Title

Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems

Agnes S. Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Susanne Pamperl; et al. Communications Biology 2019. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0697-7

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Pollinators selected for functional modules across flower developmental units in Merianieae.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee0
Organ / stage: developmental unitse1
Interactor: pollinatorse1pollinator
Outcome: functional modulese1
Direction: selectede1

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“Our analyses of tomography-based 3-dimensional flower models show that pollinators selected for functional modules across developmental units and that patterns of floral modularity changed during pollinator shifts”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 554–767

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“floral modularity and shape evolution in Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 323–392

Title

Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems

Agnes S. Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Susanne Pamperl; et al. Communications Biology 2019. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0697-7

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Modularity increased the rates of evolution in other flower parts of Merianieae.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee0
Organ / stage: other flower partse2
Outcome: rates of evolution in other flower partse2
Direction: increasede2
Qualifier: modularity was crucial for Merianieaee2

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“modularity was crucial for Merianieae to overcome the constraint of their tubular anthers through increased rates of evolution in other flower parts”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 791–939

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“floral modularity and shape evolution in Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 323–392

Title

Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems

Agnes S. Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Susanne Pamperl; et al. Communications Biology 2019. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0697-7

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Modularity may be key to the adaptive success of functionally specialized pollination systems by making flowers evolvable.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee0
Outcome: adaptive success of functionally specialized pollination systemse3
Qualifier: by making flowers flexible (evolvable)e3

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“We conclude that modularity may be key to the adaptive success of functionally specialized pollination systems by making flowers flexible (evolvable) for adaptation to changing selection regimes”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 941–1135

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“floral modularity and shape evolution in Merianieae (Melastomataceae)”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 323–392

Title

Modularity increases rate of floral evolution and adaptive success for functionally specialized pollination systems

Agnes S. Dellinger; Silvia Artuso; Susanne Pamperl; et al. Communications Biology 2019. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0697-7

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Three pollination syndromes were identified in Merianieae: buzz-bee, mixed-vertebrate and passerine.

Taxon: MerianieaeMerianieaee1
Outcome: pollination syndromese2
Value: threee2
Qualifier: 'buzz-bee', 'mixed-vertebrate' and 'passerine'e2

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“We tested for pollination syndromes in Merianieae (Melastomataceae), which contain bee- (buzz-), hummingbird-, flowerpiercer-, passerine-, bat- and rodent-pollinated species”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 98–271

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“We identified three pollination syndromes ('buzz-bee', 'mixed-vertebrate' and 'passerine'), characterized by different pollen expulsion mechanisms and reward types, but not by traditional syndrome characters”
✓ located verbatim in the source · abstract, characters 713–920

Title

Beyond buzz‐pollination – departures from an adaptive plateau lead to new pollination syndromes

Agnes S. Dellinger; Marion Chartier; Diana Fernández‐Fernández; et al. New Phytologist 2018. doi:10.1111/nph.15468

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