Abstract：
:Colour change in flowers (with age and/or after pollination) is taxonomically widespread, has evolved repeatedly, and has a range of putative selective benefits linked to modifying pollinator behaviour; however, this phenomenon seems paradoxically uncommon. We explore this paradox by reviewing the empirical evidence and argue that the evolution and maintenance of floral colour change as a signal to modify pollinator behaviour require special ecological circumstances that will often not be met across a plant population for a sustained number of generations, which potentially explains the scarcity of this phenomenon. We discuss alternative explanations for floral colour change and potentially fruitful lines of future research.
journal_name
Curr Opin Plant Bioljournal_title
Current opinion in plant biologyauthors
Ruxton GD,Schaefer HMdoi
10.1016/j.pbi.2016.06.021subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2016-08-01 00:00:00pages
96-100eissn
1369-5266issn
1879-0356pii
S1369-5266(16)30108-Xjournal_volume
32pub_type
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.pbi.2004.09.005
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title：Current opinion in plant biology
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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