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CONTRASTING THOUGHTS ABOUT DECEPTIVE ORCHIDS: A RESPONSE TO SOBEL AND RANDLE
Author(s) -
Scopece Giovanni,
Musacchio Aldo,
Widmer Alex,
Cozzolino Salvatore
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
evolution
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.84
H-Index - 199
eISSN - 1558-5646
pISSN - 0014-3820
DOI - 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2009.00693.x
Subject(s) - biology , sobel operator , taxon , reproductive isolation , pollinator , selection (genetic algorithm) , ecology , pollination , zoology , evolutionary biology , artificial intelligence , pollen , demography , edge detection , sociology , image (mathematics) , image processing , population , computer science
Sobel and Randle (2009) challenge several methodological choices in the comparative study of the evolution of reproductive isolation in Mediterranean deceptive orchids of Scopece et al. (2007) including the species concept used and the selection of taxa, together with the perceived comparison of clades of different ages. They further criticize that pollinator information was taken from the literature and that two different methods were used to estimate pollinator specificity in food‐deceptive and sexually deceptive orchids, respectively. Here we reply to these challenges.