Selection to prevent interspecific mating can cause an increase or a decrease in self pollination in sympatric populations. Characterizing geographic variation in self and interspecific incompatibilities within a species can reveal if and how the evolution of self and interspecific mate choice are linked.
• We used controlled pollinations to characterize variation in self and interspecific incompatibility across 29 populations of Phlox drummondii. We evaluated seed set from these pollinations and described the developmental timing of variation in pollen-pistil compatibility.
• There is extensive quantitative variation in self-incompatibility and interspecific-incompatibility with close congener P. cuspidata. P. drummondii populations that co-occur and hybridize with P. cuspidata have significantly higher interspecific incompatibility and self-incompatibility than geographically isolated P. drummondii populations. The strength of self and interspecific incompatibility is significantly correlated among individuals and the strength of both incompatibilities is explained by success of pollen adhesion to the stigma.
• The correlated strength of self and interspecific incompatibility across the range of P. drummondii and the concurrent developmental timing of the pollen-pistil interaction, suggests these incompatibilities have an overlapping molecular mechanism. The geographic distribution of variation in incompatibilities indicates this mechanistic link between incompatibilities may affect the evolution of mate choice in plants.
Seed set
Seed set. For each maternal plant grown in the greenhouse in 2014 and 2015 we show the number of flowers crossed and the number of seeds obtained for four types of pollinations - interspecific pollinations, intraspecific pollinations, self pollinations, and autogamy. We provide the geographic coordinates where the maternal seeds were collected.
Tables_1_Dryad_Roda_&_Hopkins.txt
Climatic data
Climatic data. Environmental data from P. drummondii populations as downloaded from the WorldClim v1.4 database in Sep 2016. We also show the loadings of the three first components in a PCA of this climatic data. Codes for climatic variables are: tmean = average monthly mean temperature (°C * 10); tmin = average monthly minimum temperature (°C * 10); tmax = average monthly maximum temperature (°C * 10); prec = average monthly precipitation (mm); alt = altitude (elevation above sea level) (m) (from SRTM); m = month of the year, from 1 (January) to 12 (December); x = code for the bioclimatic variable; bio1 = Annual Mean Temperature; bio2 = Mean Diurnal Range (Mean of monthly (max temp - min temp)); bio3 = Isothermality (bio2/bio7) (* 100); bio4 = Temperature Seasonality (standard deviation *100); bio5 = Max Temperature of Warmest Month; bio6 = Min Temperature of Coldest Month; bio7 = Temperature Annual Range (bio5-bio6); bio8 = Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter; bio9 = Mean Temperature of Driest Quarter; bio10 = Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter; bio11 = Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter; bio12 = Annual Precipitation; bio13 = Precipitation of Wettest Month; bio14 = Precipitation of Driest Month; bio15 = Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation); bio16 = Precipitation of Wettest Quarter; bio17 = Precipitation of Driest Quarter; bio18 = Precipitation of Warmest Quarter; bio19 = Precipitation of Coldest Quarter.
Table_2_Dryad_Roda_&_Hopkins.txt
Pollen development observations
Pollen development observations. We show results from observations of aniline blue stained pistils after three types of crosses, interspecific (Inter), Intraspecific (Intra), and self-cross (Self). The self compatibility phenotype of plants, as determined from seed counts (see methods), is provided: SC = self compatible; SI = self incompatible. Pistils were processed in batches, this information is included in the “Batchr” column.
Table_3_Dryad_Roda_&_Hopkins.txt
Early pollen adhesion
Early pollen adhesion. We show results from observations of aniline blue stained pistils collected between 1 and 2 hours after pollination. We performed three types of crosses - interspecific pollinations (Inter), intraspecific pollinations (Intra), and self pollinations (Self).
Table_4_Dryad_Roda_&_Hopkins.txt