Mario Vallejo-Marin
Professor at Department of Ecology and Genetics; Plant Ecology and Evolution
- E-mail:
- mario.vallejo-marin@ebc.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Evolutionsbiologiskt Centrum (EBC)
Norbyvägen 18 D - Postal address:
- Norbyvägen 18 D
752 36 UPPSALA
- ORCID:
- 0000-0002-5663-8025
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Short presentation
I am an evolutionary biologist studying the origin and maintenance of biological diversity. I studied at UNAM (Mexico), Duke University, and the University of Toronto. From 2008 to 2022, I led my lab on plant evolution at the University of Stirling, Scotland. In 2022, I moved my lab to Uppsala University where I continue using ecological and genomic tools to study natural selection, speciation, buzz pollination, and the evolution of adaptive diversity in plants.
Keywords
- bees
- buzz pollination
- ecology and evolution
- evolution
- floral evolution
- pollination
- speciation
Research
My lab studies plant diversity and evolution, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of reproductive strategies and speciation. Our overarching goal is to understand how ecological, genetic and evolutionary processes interact to generate the amazing diversity of flowering plants. To tackle this main goal, we use a combination of field and glasshouse experiments, genomics, phylogenetics, biomechanics, and theoretical models. Our projects include:
- The ecology, biomechanics, and evolution of buzz pollination
- Evolution of floral form and function
- Hybridisation, genome duplication, and speciation in introduced monkey flowers (Mimulus spp., Phrymaceae)
Publications
Selection of publications
- Biomechanical properties of non-flight vibrations produced by bees (2024)
- Buzz-pollinating bees deliver thoracic vibrations to flowers through periodic biting (2024)
- Harvesting pollen with vibrations: towards an integrative understanding of the proximate and ultimate reasons for buzz pollination (2023)
- How and why do bees buzz? Implications for buzz pollination (2022)
- Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers (2022)
- Population genomic and historical analysis suggests a global invasion by bridgehead processes in Mimulus guttatus (2021)
- Effect of whole-genome duplication on the evolutionary rescue of sterile hybrid monkeyflowers (2020)
Recent publications
- Bumblebees' flower preferences are associated with floral abundance and buzz frequency when buzz-pollinating co-flowering plants (2024)
- Floral scent changes in response to pollen removal are rare in buzz-pollinated Solanum (2024)
- Describing heterostyly, pollen, and sexual organ reciprocity in Rourea chrysomalla (Connaraceae), a rare and threatened species from the Brazilian Cerrado (2024)
- Establishment of polyploidy in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus (2024)
- Establishment of polyploidy in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus (2024)
All publications
Articles
- Bumblebees' flower preferences are associated with floral abundance and buzz frequency when buzz-pollinating co-flowering plants (2024)
- Floral scent changes in response to pollen removal are rare in buzz-pollinated Solanum (2024)
- Describing heterostyly, pollen, and sexual organ reciprocity in Rourea chrysomalla (Connaraceae), a rare and threatened species from the Brazilian Cerrado (2024)
- Establishment of polyploidy in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus (2024)
- Establishment of polyploidy in natural populations of Mimulus guttatus (2024)
- Polyploidy‐induced floral changes lead to unexpected pollinator behavior in Arabidopsis arenosa (2024)
- Biomechanical properties of non-flight vibrations produced by bees (2024)
- Buzz-pollinating bees deliver thoracic vibrations to flowers through periodic biting (2024)
- Opposing effects of plant traits on diversification (2023)
- Trait‐dependent diversification in angiosperms (2023)
- Harvesting pollen with vibrations: towards an integrative understanding of the proximate and ultimate reasons for buzz pollination (2023)
- Intraspecific variation of scent and its impact on pollinators' preferences (2023)
- Reproductive strategy of an invasive buzz-pollinated plant (Solanum rostratum) (2023)
- Reduced visitation to buzz-pollinated Cyanella hyacinthoides in the presence of other pollen sources in the hyperdiverse Cape Floristic Region (2022)
- Floral orientation affects outcross‐pollen deposition in buzz‐pollinated flowers with bilateral symmetry (2022)
- How Much Pollen Do Beelike Floral Vibrations Remove from Different Types of Anthers? (2022)
- How and why do bees buzz? Implications for buzz pollination (2022)
- Anther cones increase pollen release in buzz‐pollinated Solanum flowers (2022)
- Hold tight or loosen up? (2022)
- Buzz-pollinated crops (2021)
- Pollen dispensing schedules in buzz-pollinated plants (2021)
- Endosperm-based incompatibilities in hybrid monkeyflowers (2021)
- Andromonoecy in Solanum lycocarpum A. St.‐Hil.(Solanaceae) (2021)
- Transmission of bee-like vibrations in buzz-pollinated plants with different stamen architectures (2021)
- Variation in the natural frequency of stamens in six morphologically diverse, buzz-pollinated, heterantherous Solanum taxa and its relationship to bee vibrations (2021)
- Rapid local adaptation in both sexual and asexual invasive populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus spp.) (2021)
- Population genomic and historical analysis suggests a global invasion by bridgehead processes in Mimulus guttatus (2021)
- Comparison of defence buzzes in hoverflies and buzz-pollinating bees (2021)
- Mutualisms and (A)symmetry in Plant–Pollinator Interactions (2021)
- Biomechanical properties of a buzz-pollinated flower (2020)
- Global analysis of ecological niche conservation and niche shift in exotic populations of monkeyflowers (Mimulus guttatus, M. luteus) and their hybrid (M. × robertsii) (2020)
- Effect of whole-genome duplication on the evolutionary rescue of sterile hybrid monkeyflowers (2020)
- Floral vibrations by buzz-pollinating bees achieve higher frequency, velocity and acceleration than flight and defence vibrations (2020)
- Buzz pollination (2020)
- Bee and floral traits affect the characteristics of the vibrations experienced by flowers during buzz-pollination (2019)
- Does body size predict the buzz-pollination frequencies used by bees? (2019)
- A test of the evolution of increased competitive ability in two invaded regions (2019)
- Eukaryote hybrid genomes (2019)
- Evolutionary tinkering allows buzz pollinated plants to escape from an adaptive dead-end (2019)
- Buzz pollination (2019)
- The “polyploid hop” (2018)
- Natural selection and outbreeding depression suggest adaptive differentiation in the invasive range of a clonal plant (2018)
- Searching for the genetic footprint of ancient and recent hybridization (2018)
- Spectral characteristics for estimation heavy metals accumulation in wheat plants and grain (2017)
- Subgenome dominance in an interspecific hybrid, synthetic allopolyploid, and a 140-Year-old naturally established neo-allopolyploid monkeyflower (2017)
- Global biogeography of mating system variation in seed plants (2017)
- Genetic variation and clonal diversity in introduced populations of Mimulus guttatus assessed by genotyping at 62 single nucleotide polymorphism loci (2017)
- Geographic variation in floral traits and the capacity of autonomous selfing across allopatric and sympatric populations of two closely related Centaurium species (2017)
- Recent autopolyploidization in a naturalized population of Mimulus guttatus (Phrymaceae) (2017)
- Does the morphological fit between flowers and pollinators affect pollen deposition? An experimental test in a buzz-pollinated species with anther dimorphism (2017)
- Partial interfertility between independently originated populations of the neo-allopolyploid Mimulus peregrinus (2017)
- Neonicotinoid pesticide limits improvement in buzz pollination by bumblebees (2017)
- Current plant speciation research (2016)
- Floral sonication is an innate behaviour in bumblebees that can be fine-tuned with experience in manipulating flowers (2016)
- Strongly asymmetric hybridization barriers shape the origin of a new polyploid species and its hybrid ancestor (2016)
- Hybridization and hybrid speciation under global change (2016)
- The significance and scope of evolutionary developmental biology (2015)
- The significance and scope of evolutionary developmental biology (2015)
- High incidence of pollen theft in natural populations of a buzz-pollinated plant (2015)
- Speciation by genome duplication (2015)
- Comparison of pollination and defensive buzzes in bumblebees indicates species-specific and context-dependent vibrations (2014)
- Genomics of invasion (2014)
- Development and cross- species amplification of microsatellite loci for Puccinellia maritima, an important engineer saltmarsh species (2014)
- Correlation between polyploidy and asexual reproduction (2014)
- Recurrent modification of floral morphology in heterantherous Solanum reveals a parallel shift in reproductive strategy (2014)
- What's the 'buzz' about? The ecology and evolutionary significance of buzz-pollination (2013)
- Variability in bumblebee pollination buzzes affects the quantity of pollen released from flowers (2013)
- Social learning drives handedness in nectar-robbing bumblebees (2013)
- Hybridisation and genetic diversity in introduced Mimulus (Phrymaceae) (2013)
- Mating system in Mexican populations of the annual herb Solanum rostratum Dunal (Solanaceae) (2013)
- Population structure and genetic diversity of native and invasive populations of Solanum rostratum (Solanaceae) (2013)
- Mimulus peregrinus(Phrymaceae) (2012)
- Thirteen microsatellites developed by SSR-enriched pyrosequencing for Solanum rostratum (Solanaceae) and related species (2011)
- Analysis of inbreeding depression in mixed-mating plants provides evidence for selective interference and stable mixed mating (2011)
- Plant mating systems in a changing world (2010)
- Correlated evolution of mating system and floral display traits in flowering plants and its implications for the distribution of mating system variation (2010)
- Trait correlates and functional significance of heteranthery in flowering plants (2010)
- The Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Clonality for Plant Mating (2010)
- Morphological variation in the flowers of Jacaratia mexicana A. DC. (Caricaceae), a subdioecious tree (2009)
- Evolutionary pathways to self-fertilization in a tristylous plant species (2009)
- Correlations among fertility components can maintain mixed mating in plants (2009)
- Modification of flower architecture during early stages in the evolution of self-fertilization (2009)
- Division of labour within flowers (2009)
- Variation in sexual expression in Jacaratia mexicana (Caricaceae) in southern Mexico (2007)
- Correlated evolution of self-incompatibility and clonal reproduction in Solanum (Solanaceae) (2007)
- The role of male flowers in andromonoecious species (2007)
- Selection through female fitness helps to explain the maintenance of male flowers (2007)
- The paradox of clonality and the evolution of self-incompatibility (2007)
- Simulated seed predation reveals a variety of germination responses of neotropical rain forest species (2006)
- On the evolutionary costs of self-incompatibility (2004)
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