Ancestral reconstruction of flower morphology and pollination systems in Schizanthus (Solanaceae).

@article{Prez2006AncestralRO,
  title={Ancestral reconstruction of flower morphology and pollination systems in Schizanthus (Solanaceae).},
  author={Fernanda P{\'e}rez and Mary T. K. Arroyo and Rodrigo Medel and Mark A. Hershkovitz},
  journal={American journal of botany},
  year={2006},
  volume={93 7},
  pages={
          1029-38
        }
}
Concerted changes in flower morphology and pollinators provide strong evidence on adaptive evolution. Schizanthus (Solanaceae) has zygomorphic flowers and consists of 12 species of annual or biennial herbs that are distributed mainly in Chile and characterized by bee-, hummingbird-, and moth-pollination syndromes. To infer whether flowers diversified in relation to pollinator shifts, we traced the evolutionary trajectory of flower traits and visitors onto a phylogeny based on sequence data from… 
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