Coevolution of mutualists

Tegeticula yuccasella female pollinating a Yucca filamentosa flower.
Photo: O. Pellmyr. http://tolweb.org/images/Tegeticula_yuccasella/12475

Lecture bibliography

Alexandersson, R. and S. D. Johnson. 2002. Pollinator-mediated selection on flower-tube length in a hawkmoth-pollinated Gladiolus (Iridaceae). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, Biological Sciences 269:631-636.

Frederickson, M. E. 2013. Rethinking mutualism stability: cheaters and the evolution of sanctions. Quarterly Review of Biology 88: 269-295.

Kiers, E. T., R. A. Rousseau, S. A. West, and R. F. Denison. 2003. Host sanctions and the legume-rhizobium mutualism. Nature 425: 78-81

Kiers, E. T., M. Duhamel, Y. Beesetty, J. A. Mensah, O. Franken, E. Verbruggen, C. R. Fellbaum, G. A. Kowalchuk, M. M. Hart, A. Bago, T. M. Palmer, S. A. West, P. Vandenkoornhuyse, J. Jansa and H. Bücking. 2011. Reciprocal rewards stabilize cooperation in the mycorrhizal symbiosis. Science 333: 880-882.

Muchhala, N. 2006. Nectar bat stows huge tongue in its rib cage. Nature 444: 701-702.

Nilsson, L. A. 1988. The evolution of flowers with deep corolla tubes. Nature 334: 147-149.

Nilsson, L. A., L. Jonsson, L. Ralison, and E. Randrianjohany. 1985. Monophily and pollination mechanisms in Angraecum arachnites Schltr. (Orchidacea) in a guild of long-tongued hawkmoths (Sphingidae) in Madagascar. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 26: 1-19.

Pellmyr, O. and C. J. Huth. 1994. Evolutionary stability of mutualism between yuccas and yucca moths. Nature 372: 257-260.

Pellmyr, O., J. Leebens-Mack and C. J. Huth. 1996. Non-mutualistic yucca moths and their evolutionary consequences. Nature 380: 155-156

Rodríguez-Gironés, M. A. and A. L. Llandres. 2008. Resource competition triggers the co-evolution of long tongues and deep corolla tubes. PLoS One 8: e2992.

Selosse, M. A. & F. Rousset. 2011. The plant-fungal marketplace. Science 333: 828-829.

Thompson, J. N. 1994. The coevolutionary process. Univ. Chicago Press, Chicago.

Whittall, J. B.and S. A. Hodges. 2007. Pollinator shifts drive increasingly long nectar spurs in columbine flowers. Nature 447: 706-709.

Zeng, Y., and J. J. Wiens. 2021. Do mutualistic interactions last longer than antagonistic interactions?. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 288: 20211457.