Xiaoxia Deng

Ecological fitting in a deceptive trap flower: Aristolochia gibertii recruits native drosophilid flies outside South America

Deceptive pollination, in which plants lure pollinators without offering rewards, represents a sophisticated evolutionary strategy. The trap-flowers of Aristolochia provide an excellent system to study the coordinated evolution of floral morphology, chemistry, and phenology. Howe...

Genetic distance and pollinator sharing shape divergence in floral volatiles in closely related dioecious Ficus species

Abstract Premise Floral scent is central to host recognition in the fig–fig wasp mutualism, yet how scent divergence relates to pollinator sharing among closely related dioecious Ficus species remains unclear. Methods We analyzed volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from four pairs...