Claytonia virginica | White to red | Andrena erigeniae | Fruit production, fruit set | - | Directional selection for redness (marginal significant) | Intermediately colored flowers set more fruit than white or red-flowered plants, balancing selection; Herbivores (preferring red morph) showed selection antagonistic to pollinators; Pathogen (preferring infection of white morph) showed selection opposing to herbivores. | [165] |
Lapeirousia oreogena | With or without white arrows-markings | long-proboscid nemestrinid fly Prosoeca sp. nov. | Pollen export, fruit set, seed set | Flowers with white arrows-markings | Directional selection | - | [151] |
Centaurea cyanus | Violet-blue (dark, violet and strong UV reflective) | Bumblebees | Fertilization rate, seed number | - | Directional selection | - | [145] |
Lysimachia arvensis | Blue, red | Solitary bees and Bombus terrestris | Germination, seedling survival, seedling mass, ovule and pollen production, pollen export, seeds per fruit, seed set | Blue | Directional selection for blue in blue biased population | Dry and hot were beneficial to blue morphs; Delayed selfing may exert balancing selection on red morph in blue biased population | [168] [170] |
Gentiana lutea | Yellow to orange | Bumblebees | Seed number | Yellowness in Torrestı´o population | Directional selection in Torrestı´o population; Variation in pollinator communities among populations may maintain color polymorphism | Seed predators avoided yellow flowers in Torrestío population, same directional selection with pollinators; Orangeness increased westward | [171] [172] |
Anacamptis morio | Violet-blue (lighter, strong contrast) | Bumblebees | Fruit number, fruit mass | - | Directional selection | - | [146] |
Delphinium nelsonii | Blue, white | Hummingbirds and bumblebee queens | Seed set | Blue | Stabilizing selection | - | [163] |
I. purpurea | Dark purple (MYB1MYB1), light purple (MYB1myb1), white (myb1) | Bumblebees | Flower number, fruit number, seed mass, seed number, survival rate | When white phenotypes constitute 25% of the population, pollinators were against visiting white flowers; no preference for dark and light flowers | Negative frequency dependent selection | Increased selfing rate of white morph under lower visits and overdominance of heterozygote exerted balancing selection | [173] [174] [177] [178] [179] |
Cosmos bipinnatus | Purple, pink, white | Bumblebees and honeybees | Fruit set and seed number per capitulum | Pink | - | Overdominance of heterozygote exerted balancing selection | [175] |