Selected publications from Pellmyr lab

 

Pdf's provided when available to me,  clicking on journal links will occasionally get you abstracts,

 

 

Pellmyr O, KA Segraves, DM Althoff, J Leebens-Mack, M Balcazar-Lara. Phylogeny of the pollinating yucca moths, with revision of Mexican species (Tegeticula and Parategeticula; Lepidoptera, Prodoxidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, in press.

 

Pellmyr O, KA Segraves, DM Althoff, J Leebens-Mack, M Balcazar-Lara.  The phylogeny of yuccas. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, in press.

 

GP Svensson, O. Pellmyr & RA Raguso. Strong conservation of floral scent composition in two allopatric yuccas. Journal of Chemical Ecology 32:2657-2665. PDF.

 

Althoff, D.M., K.A. Segraves, J. Leebens-Mack and O. Pellmyr. 2006. Patterns of speciation in the yucca moths: parallel species radiations within the Tegeticula yuccasella species complex. Systematic Biology 55:398-410. PDF

 

Althoff, D.M., G.P. Svensson. & O. Pellmyr. 2006. The influence of interaction type and feeding location on the phylogeographic structure of the yucca moth community associated with Hesperoyucca whipplei.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PDF

 

Segraves, K.A.., D.M. Althoff & O. Pellmyr.  2005. Reversal of antagonism and the lability of interspecific interactions.  Proceedings, Royal Society of London B 272:2195-2201. PDF

 

Crabb, B.A. & O. Pellmyr. 2006. Impact of the third trophic level on an obligate mutualism: do yucca plants benefit from parasitoids of their pollinators? International Journal of Plant Sciences 167:119-124. PDF.

 

Svensson, G., D.M. Althoff & O. Pellmyr. 2005. Replicated host-race formation in bogus yucca moths: genetic and ecological divergence of Prodoxus quinquepunctellus on sympatric yucca hosts. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 7:1139-1151. PDF

 

Svensson, G.P., M.O. Hickman Jr, S. Bartram, W. Boland, O. Pellmyr & R.A. Raguso. 2005. Chemistry and geographic variation of floral scent in  Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae). American Journal of Botany 92:1624-1631. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O., M. Balcázar-Lara, K.A. Segraves, D.M. Althoff. & J. Leebens-Mack. 2006. Phylogeny and life history evolution of Prodoxus yucca moths (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae).  Systematic Entomology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2005.00301.x  PDF

 

Althoff, D.A., K.A. Segraves & O. Pellmyr. 2005. The community context of an obligate mutualism: assessing the role of pollinators and florivores on fruit set of Yucca filamentosa.  Ecology 86:905-913. PDF

 

Segraves, K.A. & O. Pellmyr. 2004. Testing the 'Out of Florida' hypothesis on the origin of cheating in the yucca-yucca moth mutualism. Evolution 58:2266-2279. PDF

 

Crabb, B.A. & O. Pellmyr. 2004. Defection by plants in the yucca-yucca moth association: a test of the cheater plant hypothesis for Yucca treculeana.  Oikos 107:321-328. PDF

 

Leebens-Mack, J.L. & O. Pellmyr.  2004. Patterns of genetic structure among populations of an oligophagous yucca moth (Tegeticula yuccasella).  Journal of Heredity 95:127-135. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O. & K.A. Segraves. 2003. Pollinator divergence within an obligate mutualism: two yucca moth species (Lepidoptera; Prodoxidae: Tegeticula) on the Joshua Tree (Yucca brevifolia; Agavaceae). Annals of the Entomological Society of America 96:716-722. PDF

 

Marr, D.L. & O. Pellmyr. 2003. Effect of pollinator-inflicted ovule damage on floral abscission in the yucca-yucca moth mutualism:  the role of mechanical and chemical factors. Oecologia 136:236-243. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O. 2003. Yuccas, yucca moths and coevolution: a review. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 90:35-55. PDF

 

Adamski, D.A. & O. Pellmyr.  2003. Redescription of Blastobasis yuccaecolella Dietz with notes on immature stages, biology, and distribution (Lepidoptera: Coleophoridae: Blastobasinii). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 105:388-396. 

 

Pellmyr, O. & H.W. Krenn.  2002. Origin of a complex key innovation in an obligate plant-insect mutualism. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 99:5498-5502. PDF

 

Althoff, D.M. & O. Pellmyr.  2002. Examining genetic structure in a bogus yucca moth: a sequential approach to phylogeography. Evolution 56:1632-1643. PDF

 

Herrera, C.M. & O. Pellmyr (eds.) 2002. Plant-Animal Interactions: An Evolutionary Approach.  Blackwell Science, Oxford. Edited text by 13 contributors, intended for advanced undergraduate-graduate level.

 

 

Segraves, K. & O. Pellmyr. 2001. Phylogeography of the yucca moth Tegeticula maculata: the role of historical biogeography in reconciling high genetic structure with limited speciation. Molecular Ecology 10:1247-1253. PDF

 

Marr, D.L., M.T. Brock & O. Pellmyr. 2001. Coexistence of mutualists and antagonists: exploring the impact of cheaters on the Yucca-yucca moth mutualism. Oecologia 128:454-463. PDF

 

Althoff, D.M., J. Groman, K.S. Segraves & O. Pellmyr.  2001. Phylogeographic structure in the bogus yucca moth Prodoxus quinquepunctellus (Prodoxidae): comparisons with coexisting pollinator yucca moths.  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 21:117-127. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O. & M. Balcázar-Lara. 2001. Systematics of the yucca moth genus Parategeticula (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae), with description of three Mexican species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 93:432-439. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O. & J. Leebens-Mack.  2001. Reversal of mutualism as a mechanism for adaptive radiation in yucca moths. American Naturalist 156:S62-S76. PDF

 

Groman, J.D. & O. Pellmyr. 2000. Rapid evolution and specialization following host colonization in a yucca moth. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 13:223-236. PDF

 

Huth, C.J. & O. Pellmyr. 2000. Pollen-mediated selective abortion promotes evolutionary stability of mutualism between yuccas and yucca moths. Ecology 81:1100-1107. PDF

 

Marr, D.L., J. Leebens-Mack, L. Elms & O. Pellmyr. 2000. Pollen dispersal in Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae): the paradox of self-pollination behavior by Tegeticula yuccasella (Prodoxidae). American Journal of Botany 87:670-677. PDF

 

  

Fluorescent dyes used in Marr et al 2000 to track pollen transfer. Left, outcross deposit on stigma; right, self pollen on stigma from labelled anthers

 

Pellmyr, O. 1999. A systematic revision of the yucca moths in the Tegeticula yuccasella complex north of Mexico. Systematic Entomology 24:243-271. PDF

 

Huth, C.J. & O. Pellmyr. 1999. Yucca moth oviposition and pollination behavior is affected by past flower visitors: evidence for a host-marking pheromone. Oecologia 119:593-599. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O. & J. Leebens-Mack. 1999. Forty million years of mutualism: evidence for an Eocene origin of the yucca-yucca moth association. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 96:9178-9183. PDF

 

Groman, J. & O. Pellmyr. 1999. The pollination biology of Manfreda virginica (Agavaceae): relative contribution of diurnal and nocturnal visitors. Oikos 87:373-381.

 

Pellmyr, O. & J. Leebens-Mack. 1998. Herbivores and molecular clocks as tools in plant biogeography. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 63:367-378. PDF

 

Leebens-Mack, J., O. Pellmyr & M. Brock. 1998. Host specificity and the genetic structure of two yucca moth species in a yucca hybrid zone. Evolution 52:1376-1382. PDF

 

Raguso, R.A. & O. Pellmyr. 1998. Dynamic headspace analysis of floral volatiles: a comparison of methods. Oikos 81:238-254

 

Pellmyr, O. 1997. Pollinating seed eaters: why is active pollination so rare? Ecology 78:1655-1660. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O., L. Massey, M.A. Feist & J.L. Hamrick. 1997. Genetic consequences of specialization: yucca moth behavior and self-pollination in yuccas. Oecologia 109:273-278. PDF

 

Brown, J., J. Leebens-Mack, O. Pellmyr & J.N. Thompson. 1997. Phylogeography and host association in a pollinating seed parasite, Greya politella (Lepidoptera, Prodoxidae). Molecular Ecology 6:215-224.

 

Huth, C.J. & O. Pellmyr. 1997. Non-random fruit retention in Yucca filamentosa: consequences for an obligate mutualism. Oikos 78:576-584.

 

Pellmyr, O. & E.J. Augenstein. 1997. Pollination biology of Hesperaloe parviflora (Agavaceae). Southwestern Naturalist 42:182-187.

 

Pellmyr, O. 1997. Stability of plant-animal mutualisms: keeping the benefactors at bay.  Trends in Plant Science 2:408-409.

 

Pellmyr, O., J. Leebens-Mack & C.J. Huth. 1996. Non-mutualistic yucca moths and their evolutionary consequences. Nature 380:256-257.

 

Pellmyr, O., J.N. Thompson, J. Brown & R.G. Harrison. 1996. Evolution of pollination and mutualism in the yucca moth lineage. American Naturalist 148:827-847. PDF

 

Pellmyr, O., and C.J. Huth.1994. Evolutionary stability of mutualism between yuccas and yucca moths. Nature 372:257-260.

 

Brown, J.M., O. Pellmyr, J.N. Thompson and R.G. Harrison.1994. Phylogeny of Greya (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae), based on nucleotide sequence variation in mitochondrial cytochrome oxidase I and II: congruence with morphological data. Molecular Biology and Evolution 11:128-141. PDF

 

Brown, J.M., O. Pellmyr, J.N. Thompson and R.G. Harrison.1994. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the Prodoxidae (Lepidoptera: Incurvarioidea) indicates rapid ecological diversification of the yucca moths. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 87:795-802.

 

Pellmyr, O.1992. Evolution of insect pollination and angiosperm diversification. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 7:46-49.

 

Pellmyr, O.1992. The phylogeny of a mutualism: evolution and coadaptation between Trollius and its seed-parasitic pollinators. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 47:337-365.

 

Thompson, J.N. and O. Pellmyr.1992. Mutualism in pollinating seed parasites amid co-pollinators: constraints on specialization. Ecology 73:1780-1791. PDF

 

Davis, D.R., Pellmyr, O. & Thompson, J.N. 1992. Biology and systematics of Greya Busck and Tetragma, new genus (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, no. 524. (88 pages, 375 figures, 7 maps)

 

Pellmyr, O. 1989.  The cost of mutualism: interactions between Trollius europaeus and its pollinating parasites. Oecologia 78: 53-59.

 

Pellmyr, O. 1974. Sterrha trigeminata Hufn. - ny geometrid fšr Norden (Lep., Geometridae). Entomologen 3: 23-24.