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Plant speciation
Loren H Rieseberg et al. Science. 2007.
Abstract
Like the formation of animal species, plant speciation is characterized by the evolution of barriers to genetic exchange between previously interbreeding populations. Prezygotic barriers, which impede mating or fertilization between species, typically contribute more to total reproductive isolation in plants than do postzygotic barriers, in which hybrid offspring are selected against. Adaptive divergence in response to ecological factors such as pollinators and habitat commonly drives the evolution of prezygotic barriers, but the evolutionary forces responsible for the development of intrinsic postzygotic barriers are virtually unknown and frequently result in polymorphism of incompatibility factors within species. Polyploid speciation, in which the entire genome is duplicated, is particularly frequent in plants, perhaps because polyploid plants often exhibit ecological differentiation, local dispersal, high fecundity, perennial life history, and self-fertilization or asexual reproduction. Finally, species richness in plants is correlated with many biological and geohistorical factors, most of which increase ecological opportunities.
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Fig. 1
Genetics of hybrid incompatibilities. (A) Example of a typical chromosomal rearrangement in plants, showing loss of fertility in heterozygotes because 50% of gametes are unbalanced genetically and inviable. (B) Classic two-locus BDM incompatibility in which new mutations are established at alternate loci and without loss of fitness in geographically isolated populations, but which are incompatible in hybrids. (C) Single-locus BDM incompatibility in which new mutations are established at the same locus and without loss of fitness in geographically isolated populations, but which are incompatible in hybrids.
Fig. 2
Genetic basis of transgressive segregation showing how segregating hybrids can combine plus and minus alleles from parental species, thereby generating extreme phenotypes or adaptations to extreme habitats.
Fig. 3
Mechanisms by which polyploids can arise. (A) Somatic doubling, in which chromosome number is doubled in vegetative tissue that gives rise to reproductive organs. (B) Fusion of unreduced gametes that are produced when cell walls fail to form in the final stage of meiosis. (C) A triploid bridge, in which unreduced and reduced gametes form triploids. If the triploids also produce unreduced gametes, the triploid gametes may fuse with reduced gametes from diploid individuals to generate stable tetraploids.
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