{"id":214,"date":"2015-01-04T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T20:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wdb.ugr.es\/~fperfect\/evoflor\/?p=214"},"modified":"2016-04-06T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-06T18:01:40","slug":"the-ecology-and-genetics-of-floral-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"The ecology and genetics of floral evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-216 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/wp-content\/uploads\/RW1neg.png\" alt=\"RW1neg\" width=\"150\" height=\"208\" \/>To assess the phenotypic variation in flower shape occurring in several species of\u00a0<em>Erysimum,\u00a0<\/em>we apply landmark-based geometric morphometrics tools.\u00a0<span class=\"Estilo57\">People interested in a more technical and methodological explanation of geometric morphometrics can visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/life.bio.sunysb.edu\/morph\">Stony Brook Morphometric website<\/a>.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To study of any potential adaptive function of flower shape and the role played by pollinators as selective pressures\u00a0we have conducted\u00a0several studies with different <em>Erysimum<\/em> species, determining the relationships between flower shape and fitness estimates (using as possible accurate and inclusive estimates, rather than the standard incomplete estimates), the effect of major pollinators in these relationships, and the preference pattern and effectiveness of major pollinators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To put together all these pieces of information, we use structural equation modeling with latent variables. We think that, by applying this advance multivariate technique, we are able to model the effect complex variables, such as flower shape, on plant fitness. To build our models, we usually use SEPATH module in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statsoft.com\/\">Statistica 7.0<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.statmodel.com\/index.shtml\">MPlus<\/a>.\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-215 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/wp-content\/uploads\/SEM.png\" alt=\"SEM\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Estilo57\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To assess the phenotypic variation in flower shape occurring in several species of\u00a0Erysimum,\u00a0we apply landmark-based geometric morphometrics tools.\u00a0People interested in a more technical and methodological explanation of geometric morphometrics can visit the\u00a0Stony Brook Morphometric website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpd.ugr.es\/~evoflor\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}