Oral Presentations: UC 330
Genetics of Floral Divergence in Monkeyflower
Presentation Type
Presentation
Abstract / Artist's Statement
Pollination is key for the survival and reproduction of plants. Subsequently, floral traits often diversify by natural selection to match specific pollinators or to be efficient at self-pollination within a flower. Uncovering what genetic factors are required for different pollination syndromes will help to understand how and why pollination ecology exists as we see it. To investigate this, I grew second generation (F2) crosses between two species of Monkeyflower, Mimulus cardinalis (large, red, hummingbird pollinated flower) and Mimulus parishii (small, purple, self-pollinating flower) and measured 11 floral, vegetative, and reproductive traits. In addition to analyses of phenotypic and genetic correlations among traits, I propose to use RadSeq (a method of genome sequencing) to genotype the hybrids and map the genetic loci underlying each trait.
Category
Life Sciences
Genetics of Floral Divergence in Monkeyflower
UC 330
Pollination is key for the survival and reproduction of plants. Subsequently, floral traits often diversify by natural selection to match specific pollinators or to be efficient at self-pollination within a flower. Uncovering what genetic factors are required for different pollination syndromes will help to understand how and why pollination ecology exists as we see it. To investigate this, I grew second generation (F2) crosses between two species of Monkeyflower, Mimulus cardinalis (large, red, hummingbird pollinated flower) and Mimulus parishii (small, purple, self-pollinating flower) and measured 11 floral, vegetative, and reproductive traits. In addition to analyses of phenotypic and genetic correlations among traits, I propose to use RadSeq (a method of genome sequencing) to genotype the hybrids and map the genetic loci underlying each trait.