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A comment on García et al. (2005, 2007) and related papers on mating patterns and gene dispersal in Prunus mahalebC M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Avenida Américo Vespuccio s n, E 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Mol Ecol 18:4533-5; discussion 4536-40. 2009..2005, 2007) as well as of several related publications on gene dispersal and mating patterns of P. mahaleb conducted on the same trees and relying on the same false premises of spatial isolation and exhaustive sampling...
Lognormal distribution of individual lifetime fecundity: insights from a 23-year studyCarlos M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Américo Vespuccio s n, E 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Ecology 91:422-30. 2010..latifolia, and suggests that environmental stochasticity can be decisive in the genesis of strong fecundity hierarchies in long-lived plants...
Inhospitable sweetness: nectar filtering of pollinator-borne inocula leads to impoverished, phylogenetically clustered yeast communitiesCarlos M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Americo Vespucio s n, E 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Proc Biol Sci 277:747-54. 2010....
Epigenetic differentiation and relationship to adaptive genetic divergence in discrete populations of the violet Viola cazorlensisCarlos M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain
New Phytol 187:867-76. 2010..Population-specific, divergent patterns of correlated selection on epigenetic and genetic individual variation could account for the coordinated epigenetic-genetic adaptive population differentiation revealed by this study...
Quantifying the genetic component of phenotypic variation in unpedigreed wild plants: tailoring genomic scan for within-population useC M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Américo Vespuccio s n, E 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Mol Ecol 18:2602-14. 2009..Genotype x environment effects accounted for 38% of fecundity variance, which may help to explain the unexpectedly high levels of genetic variance for fecundity found...
Yeasts in floral nectar: a quantitative surveyCarlos M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Sevilla, Spain
Ann Bot 103:1415-23. 2009..Possible correlations between interspecific differences in yeast incidence and pollinator composition are also explored...
Population-genomic approach reveals adaptive floral divergence in discrete populations of a hawk moth-pollinated violetC M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Avenida de Maria Luisa s n, E 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Mol Ecol 17:5378-90. 2008..cazorlensis and illustrate the potential of genome scans to identify instances of adaptive divergence when used in combination with phenotypic information...
Invisible floral larcenies: microbial communities degrade floral nectar of bumble bee-pollinated plantsCarlos M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Avenida de Maria Luisa s n, E 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Ecology 89:2369-76. 2008....
Adding a third dimension to the edge of a species' range: altitude and genetic structuring in mountainous landscapesC M Herrera
Department of Evolutionary Ecology, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Heredity (Edinb) 100:275-85. 2008..latifolia at its mountainous distribution edge, and a factor which may influence the evolutionary potential of peripheral populations and the likelihood of local adaptation...
Nectar yeasts warm the flowers of a winter-blooming plantCarlos M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Americo Vespucio s n, Isla de la Cartuja, Seville, Spain
Proc Biol Sci 277:1827-34. 2010..The warming effect of nectar-dwelling yeasts documented in this study suggests novel ecological mechanisms potentially linking nectarivorous microbes with winter-blooming plants and their insect pollinators...
Jack of all nectars, master of most: DNA methylation and the epigenetic basis of niche width in a flower-living yeastC M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Avenida Americo Vespucio s n, Isla de la Cartuja, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Mol Ecol 21:2602-16. 2012..reukaufii was largely made possible by epigenetic changes enabling genotype plasticity in resource use...
Clonality, genetic diversity and support for the diversifying selection hypothesis in natural populations of a flower-living yeastC M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Avenida Americo Vespucio s n, Isla de la Cartuja, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Mol Ecol 20:4395-407. 2011..Microsite-dependent, divergent selection can maintain high local and regional genetic diversity in microbial populations despite extensive clonality...
Plant traits, environmental factors, and pollinator visitation in winter-flowering Helleborus foetidus (Ranunculaceae)Alfonso M Sánchez-Lafuente
Estacion Biologica de Donana CSIC, Avda de Maria Luisa s n, Pabellón del Perú, E 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Ann Bot 96:845-52. 2005..This study examined the effect of plant traits and environmental factors on pollinator visitation in the winter-flowering Helleborus foetidus (Ranunculaceae) in three distant regions in the Iberian Peninsula...
Untangling individual variation in natural populations: ecological, genetic and epigenetic correlates of long-term inequality in herbivoryC M Herrera
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Avenida Americo Vespucio s n, Isla de la Cartuja, Sevilla 41092, Spain
Mol Ecol 20:1675-88. 2011....
Genetic structure of the shrub Daphne laureola across the Baetic Ranges, a Mediterranean glacial refugium and biodiversity hotspotA R Castilla
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Plant Biol (Stuttg) 14:515-24. 2012..laureola, and presumably other species having discontinuous distributions across the Baetic ranges, should take into account geographical differences in levels of genetic differentiation between the different distribution borders...
Presence of yeasts in floral nectar is consistent with the hypothesis of microbial-mediated signaling in plant-pollinator interactionsMaría I Pozo
Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Sevilla, Spain
Plant Signal Behav 4:1102-4. 2009....
Geographical structuring of genetic diversity across the whole distribution range of Narcissus longispathus, a habitat-specialist, Mediterranean narrow endemicMónica Medrano
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Avenida de Maria Luisa s n, E 41013, Sevilla, Spain
Ann Bot 102:183-94. 2008..By using dense sampling of populations across the species' whole geographical range, genetic structuring at different geographical scales is also examined...
Intra-plant variation in nectar sugar composition in two Aquilegia species (Ranunculaceae): contrasting patterns under field and glasshouse conditionsAzucena Canto
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Avenida de Maria Luisa s n, E 41013, Sevilla, Spain
Ann Bot 99:653-60. 2007..The aims of the study are to assess the generality of extreme intra-plant variation in nectar sugar composition recently reported for other species in the field, and gaining insight on the possible mechanisms involved...
Herkogamy and mating patterns in the self-compatible daffodil Narcissus longispathusMónica Medrano
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, E 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Ann Bot 95:1105-11. 2005....
Ecological context of breeding system variation: sex, size and pollination in a (predominantly) gynodioecious shrubConchita Alonso
Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas CSIC, Avenida de Maria Luisa s n, E 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Ann Bot 100:1547-56. 2007....
