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A PHYLOGENETIC STUDY OF POLLINATOR CONSERVATISM AMONG SEXUALLY DECEPTIVE ORCHIDS
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q 2002 The Society for the Study of Evolution. All rights reserved.
Evolution, 56(5), 2002, pp. 888?898
A PHYLOGENETIC STUDY OF POLLINATOR CONSERVATISM AMONG SEXUALLY
DECEPTIVE ORCHIDS
JIM G. MANT,1,2,3 FLORIAN P. SCHIESTL,1,4 ROD PEAKALL,1 AND PETER H. WESTON3
1School of Botany and Zoology, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, 0200, Australia
2E-mail: Jim.Mant@anu.edu.au
3Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Road, Sydney, 2000, Australia
4Geobotanical Institute ETH Zurich, Zollikerstrasse 107, Zurich, CH-8008, Switzerland
Abstract. Orchids of the genus Chiloglottis are pollinated through the sexual deception of male wasps mainly from
the genus Neozeleboria (Tiphiidae: Thynninae). The orchids mimic both the appearance and sex pheromones of wingless
female thynnines but provide no reward to the deceived males. Despite the asymmetry of this interaction, strong
pollinator specificity is typical. Such plant-pollinator interactions would seem to be relatively flexible in the plant?s
adaptive response to variation in the local pollinator resource. However, we present DNA sequence data on both
orchids and wasps that demonstrate a pattern of pollinator conservatism operating at a range of taxonomic levels.
Sequence data from the wasps indicate 15 of 16 Chiloglottis pollinators are closely related members of one clade of
Thynninae. A pattern of congruence between orchid and wasp phylogenies is also demonstrated below the generic
level, such that related orchids tend to use related thynnine wasps as specific pollinators. Comparative physiological
data on the wasp responses to the floral scents of two Chiloglottis species and one outgroup, Arthrochilus, indicate
similar attractive volatile chemicals are used by related orchid taxa. By extension, we infer a similarity of sex pheromone
signals among related thynnines. Thus, the conservative pattern of pollinator change in sexually deceptive orchids
may reflect phylogenetic patterns in the sex pheromones of their pollinators.
Key words. Deceptive pollination, evolutionary constraint, floral odor, gas chromatography with electroantenno-
graphic detection, pseudocopulation, specialization, thynnine wasp.
Received July 5, 2001. Accepted December 14, 2001.
The Orchidaceae possess an extraordinary variety of pol-
lination systems and attract an equally impressive array of
pollinators. Many of these systems are also highly special-
ized, attracting a single or very few pollinating species
(Tremblay 1992). One of the more unusual modes of polli-
nation involves the sexual deception of male Hymenoptera
by chemical, visual, and tactile mimicry of the female insect,
a syndrome often referred to as pseudocopulation. A com-
bination of chemical and behavioral studies on the sexually
deceptive Ophrys from Europe (Bergstro¨m 1978; Borg-Karl-
son 1990; Schiestl et al. 1999, 2000; Ayasse et al. 2000) has
demonstrated that floral odors mimicking hymenopteran sex
pheromones are of key importance to this plant-pollinator
interaction. This form of sexual mimesis has arisen numerous
times in the family yet finds its most diverse expression
among the terrestrial Diurideae of Australia, with up to nine
genera and more than 100 species pollinated by a range of
sexually deceived Hymenoptera (Dafni and Bernhardt 1990).
The evolution of floral diversity and, by extension, of repro-
ductive isolation in angiosperms is often assumed to be me-
diated by pollinator selection (Grant 1994). Yet, because
most plant species tend toward generalized pollination,
claims of directional selection seem paradoxical (Ollerton
1996; Waser 1998). Although the extent of pollinator spe-
cialization in the angiosperms may indeed be exaggerated by
pollination biologists (Waser et al. 1996), extreme specificity
appears to be the rule in deceptive orchids that mimic the
species-specific sexual traits of insects (Nilsson 1992). Re-
cent studies on Australian sexually deceptive taxa have con-
firmed this view by documenting widespread specific polli-
nation in both sympatric and allopatric species (Stoutamire
1975; Peakall 1989; Peakall and Handel 1993 ; Bower 1996;
Peakall and Beattie 1996; Alcock 2000; Bower 2001). Thus,
in sexually deceptive systems, the evolution of reproductive
isolation or speciation may actually be closely associated
with pollination, as changes in the chemistry of floral scents
may permit the attraction of distinct pollinators (Paulus and
Gack 1990; Grant 1994).
Given the link between specific pollinators and adaptive
change, it is interesting that little attention has been paid to
how specialization at the species level translates to special-
ization at higher taxonomic levels (Waser et al. 1996; Johnson
and Steiner 2000). Are sexually deceptive orchids highly la-
bile in the kind of pollinator used, switching readily among
unrelated insects? Or are these deceptive orchids more often
constrained to particular taxonomic groups of pollinators?
One might expect shifts in specific pollinators to occur er-
ratically, according to ecological advantage rather than pol-
linator phylogeny. Alternatively, pollinator conservatism
among clades of sexually deceptive orchids may be favored
by the nature of the chemical mimicry system employed. As
it is, particular orchid groups vary greatly in the diversity of
pollinators they use. In South Africa, diversification of the
mainly food-deceptive Disa has been associated with major
adaptive shifts in pollinators?from birds, hawkmoths, and
honeybees?even among closely related species (Johnson et
al. 1998). At the other extreme, specialized pollinator rewards
restrict orchids in the Catasetinae solely to fragrance col-
lecting male euglossine bees (Dressler 1981; Chase and Hills
1992). The European sexually deceptive Ophrys has polli-
nators deriving from six families across three superfamilies
of Aculeate Hymenoptera (Borg-Karlson 1990) in some cases
with intraspecific forms using different families (Paulus and
Gack 1990). However, several solitary bee genera figure high-
ly, including Andrena in the Andrenidae and Eucera, Tetra-
lonia, and Anthophora in the Anthophoridae (Paulus and
Gack 1990).
889SEXUAL DECEPTION
In the Diurideae, pollinators of sexually deceptive orchids
derive from among five hymenopteran families, including
Pergidae, Formicidae, and ichneumonid, scoliid, and tiphiid
wasps (for pollinator accounts, see van der Cingel 2001 and
references therein). As in Ophrys, the high pollinator diver-
sity associated with sexually deceptive diurids might suggest
a tendency in the group for shifts onto phylogenetically dis-
parate pollinators. However, much of the pollinator diversity
in the Diurideae may be accounted for by several independent
origins of sexual deception. Recent molecular phylogenies
(Kores et al. 2001) confirm this interpretation, indicating at
least one origin in the thynnine wasp?pollinated Caladenia
and between two and four separate origins in the remaining
four orchid taxa: Cryptostylis (Ichneumonidae), Leporella
fimbriata (Formicidae), Calochilus (Scoliidae), and subtribe
Drakaeinae (Thynninae with one exception, Caleana major
pollinated by a member of the Pergidae). These observations
suggest that, although several pollinating taxa are used by
sexually deceptive diurids, specialization is evident partic-
ularly at the generic level, with pollinator shifts among higher
hymenopteran taxa being rare.
In this paper, we investigate the extent of pollinator con-
servatism and how it may be maintained by reconstructing
both orchid and pollinator relationships among 16 species of
one genus, Chiloglottis (Diurideae: Drakaeinae), pollinated
by male thynnine wasps (Tiphiidae: Thynninae). By exam-
ining the responses of wasp olfactory receptors to orchid
scents using gas chromatography with electroantennographic
detection (GC-EAD), we assess the basic principles of pol-
linator attraction in two Chiloglottis species and one closely
related genus, Arthrochilus. These phylogenetic and com-
parative physiological data are used to address the following
questions: Are there patterns of phylogenetic congruence be-
tween Chiloglottis species and their wasp pollinators? Do
specific pollinators show distinct physiological responses to
Chiloglottis floral odors? Do the pollinators of different or-
chid species respond to similar compounds?
MATERIALS AND METHODS
DNA Material
Sampling of orchids and their respective pollinators for
this study follows pollinator determinations for the majority
of the 23 described, and several undescribed species of Chil-
oglottis by C. C. Bower (1996; unpubl. data), following ear-
lier reports by Stoutamire (1974, 1975). In total, 16 species
of Chiloglottis and their pollinators have been sampled from
throughout the eastern seaboard of Australia and Tasmania.
Although not all Chiloglottis species whose pollinators have
been determined could be sampled, the taxa collected rep-
resent a substantial survey of the genus (four described spe-
cies are lacking pollinator accounts, one is self-pollinating,
and two have wasp pollinators allied closely to species sam-
pled in this study). Each of the sampled orchid species has
distinct pollinators either in sympatry or allopatry and are
distinguished by diagnostic, if in some cases minor, mor-
phological characters (Jones 1991; Bower 1996). One orchid
outgroup, Arthrochilus huntianus, and its pollinator, Arthro-
thynnus huntianus (Bower 2001), and three nonpollinating
Thynninae outgroups are included.
The specific status of the majority of wasp pollinators sam-
pled is not in doubt, although several await formal taxonomic
treatment (G. Brown, pers. comm.). However, certain pol-
linators remain indistinguishable on morphological grounds
and are referred to as Neozeleboria monticola (1), N. mon-
ticola (2), N. monticola (3), N. impatiens (1), and N. impatiens
(2). Choice experiments among translocated orchid species
suggests there is a complex geographical pattern of phero-
monal variation among these morphologically similar forms
of N. monticola and N. impatiens (Bower and Brown 1997;
C. C. Bower, unpubl. data). The geographical forms of these
two wasp species pollinate morphologically distinct species
of Chiloglottis living in different geographical regions (see
Table 1 for localities). Vouchers for orchid accessions are
held at the National Herbarium of New South Wales (NSW)
or Australian National Herbarium (CANB), and wasps at The
Australian Museum, Sydney. Pollinating wasps were caught
following procedures outlined in Peakall (1990) and wasp
species identifications were confirmed by G. Brown (Dept.
of Primary Industries and Fisheries, Northern Territory, Aus-
tralia). Accession details of orchid and wasp samples are
listed in Table 1.
Orchid Sequencing
DNA sequence data from one nuclear (ITS) and one chlo-
roplast locus (trnT/L) were examined. Orchid DNA was
extracted using DNeasy Plant Mini Kit (Qiagen, Melbourne,
Australia) and further purified using a modified version of
the diatomite method of Gilmore et al. (1993). Primers
ITS1F and ITS 2R from Baldwin et al. (1992) were used
for amplification and sequencing of the entire ITS region.
Two additional primers (A. Perkins, unpubl. data) anchored
in the 5.8S gene (Cal-1R, 59-CCAAGATATATCCA-
TTGCCGAGAGTC-39) and Cal-2F, 59-CAGAATCCCGT-
GAACCATCGAG-39) were used in ITS sequencing reac-
tions. The chloroplast intergenic spacer between trnT
(UGU) and the trnL (UAA) 59 exon was sequenced using
the published primers, B48557 and A49291 (Taberlet et al.
1991). Polymerase chain reactions (PCRs) (50 ml) contained
5 pmol of each primer, 10 mM Tris-Cl (pH 8.3), 3 mM
MgCl, 50 mM KCl, 0.2 mM of each dNTP, 1 unit of Taq
polymerase (Fisher Taq F1, Biotec Perth, Australia) and 4
ml of template. Amplification was carried out in a Hybaid
(Middlesex, U.K.) OMN-E thermal sequencer using a 30-
sec denaturation at 948C, 30-sec extension at 728C with a
28C touchdown for annealing every second cycle, com-
mencing at 658C and reaching a low of 558C. A final 4-min
extension at 728C completed the reaction. The trnT/L am-
plification followed the same procedure as ITS. PCR prod-
ucts were purified using Promega (Sydney, Australia) Wiz-
ard PCR Preps DNA Purification System. Sequencing re-
actions followed those for the wasps.
Wasp Sequencing
DNA was extracted from the thorax of fresh or ethanol-
preserved specimens using the salting-out method of Sun-
nucks and Hales (1996). Two mitochondrial genes (16S and
cytochrome b) and one nuclear gene (wingless) were se-
quenced. A fragment near the 59 end of the mitochondrial
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891SEXUAL DECEPTION
LSU rDNA gene (16S), incorporating domains IV and V of
the large subunit rRNA gene, was amplified using the prim-
ers LR-J-12887 and LR-N-13398 (Simon et al. 1994). A
large fragment of the cytochrome b mtDNA gene was am-
plified using the CB1 and tRs primers (Jermiin and Crozier
1994) for Neozeleboria pollinators only. The published cy-
tochrome b primer, tRs, was successful, despite the presence
of a hairpin loop at the 39 end. The nuclear gene, wingless,
was amplified using the published primers LepWG1 and
LepWG2 (Brower and DeSalle 1998) and two sequencing
primers designed for this study HyWG1 (59-ATGAGGCTT-
CCAAATTTCCG-39) and HyWG2 (59-CTACCGCAGCAC-
ATCAGTCG-39). The three outgroups were sampled for 16S
and wingless only, because cytochrome b was considered too
variable for informative outgroup comparison. PCR reactions
(25 ml) contained 5 pmol of each primer, 10 mM Tris-Cl (pH
8.3), 3 mM MgCl, 50 mM KCl, 0.2 mM of each dNTP, one
unit of Taq polymerase (Fisher Taq F1, Biotech) and 2 ml of
template. Amplification was carried out in a Corbett Re-
search, (Sydney, Australia) FTS-960 thermal sequencer using
a 45-sec denaturation at 948C, 30-sec extension at 728C and
using a 58C stepdown program for annealing with the first
cycle at 658C, and annealing in later cycles reduced by 58C
after every second cycle until reaching 458C. An additional
35 cycles were run with annealing set at 458C. Cytochrome
b amplification followed the same conditions but the an-
nealing temperature was reduced to 508C. PCR products were
precipitated and purified using ammonium acetate: ethanol
(1:10) precipitation followed by a 70% ethanol wash.
A 10-ml sequencing reaction using the dideoxy chain ter-
mination method (Sanger et al. 1977) was carried out using
ABI BigDye terminator chemistry (Perkin Elmer Boston,
MA) following the manufacturer?s instructions. The same
primers used for amplification were used for sequencing re-
actions except in the case of wingless. Sequencing was per-
formed using an ABI Prism 377 automated DNA sequencer.
All DNA fragments were sequenced in both the forward and
reverse directions.
Sequence Analysis
Sequence analysis was conducted using PAUP* version
4.08 (Swofford 2001). Sequences were aligned and edited
using Sequencher version 3.1.1 (Gene Codes Corporation,
Ann Arbor, MI). The 16S alignment was compared with pub-
lished secondary structure reconstructions of Bombus (Buck-
ley et al. 2000). Two regions corresponding to helices 68 and
75 in Bombus (Buckley et al. 2000) showed length variation
that made alignment ambiguous and were excluded from fur-
ther analyses. Informative indels were coded as binary char-
acters in the cpDNA (three indels) and ITS (two indels) da-
tasets. Indels in the wasp datasets were either lacking (cy-
tochrome b and wingless) or ambiguous (16S), therefore none
were coded for analysis. Sequences and their alignments have
been submitted to GenBank (Table 1).
Parsimony analyses were implemented using heuristic
searches with TBR branch swapping and 10 random addition
sequence starting trees, with gaps treated as missing. Boot-
strapping was performed with 100 replicates (Felsenstein
1985). An incongruence length difference (ILD) test (Farris
et al. 1995) as implemented in PAUP* was used to assess
the combinability of the three wasp datasets for Neozeleboria
taxa only, after excluding uninformative characters. Transi-
tion/transversion ratios were calculated by averaging over all
pairwise comparisons across all sites. To investigate the oc-
currence of cospeciation among organisms, two questions are
usually addressed (Huelsenbeck et al. 1997). The first as-
sesses the degree to which phylogenetic topologies are in
agreement. The second examines whether speciation times
are associated. Software is available for analyzing both of
these questions (Page 1996; Huelsenbeck et al. 1997). How-
ever, these require fully resolved phylogenies. In the absence
of a fully resolved orchid phylogeny, we chose to assess the
congruence of orchid and wasp phylogenies with an ILD test.
Orchid and wasp datasets were treated as two separate data
partitions and the test was run with and without the two
instances of topological incongruence (C. formicifera and C.
affinity formicifera, see Fig. 1). To test whether divergence
times in the orchid and wasp lineages were similar, we were
again limited by the lack of a fully resolved orchid phylogeny
and the absence of any external calibration dates for a mo-
lecular clock analysis. Therefore, divergence times were as-
sessed by comparing the relative branch lengths of orchid
and wasp trees.
Floral Odor
Sample collection, gas chromatography with
electroantennographic detection
Orchid flowers were collected from the Blue Mountains,
New South Wales (Chiloglottis spp.) and in the Brindabella
Range, Australian Capital Territory (Arthrochilus huntianus).
Individual labella were extracted in pentane for 24 h. Samples
were concentrated by evaporation of solvent and stored in a
freezer. Male pollinator wasps were collected by baiting with
orchid flowers (Peakall 1990) in the area where the orchids
grew. Gas chromatography with electroantennographic de-
tection (GC-EAD) was performed according to Schiestl et al.
(2000) and Schiestl and Ayasse (2000).
One microliter of each odor sample was injected splitless
at 508C (1 min) into a gas chromatograph (HP 6890, Hewlett
Packard, Little Falls, DE) followed by opening the split valve
and programming to 2308C at a rate of 108C/min. The GC
was equipped with a DB-FFAP column (30 m 3 0.32 mm);
helium was used as carrier gas. A GC effluent splitter (press-
fit-connection; split ratio 1:1) was used and the outlet was
placed in a purified and humidified airstream. This air was
directed over a male wasp?s antenna prepared as follows: The
tip of the excised antenna was cut off and the antenna mount-
ed between two glass electrodes filled with insect ringer so-
lution. The electrode holding the base of the antenna was
connected to grounded Ag-AgCl wire. The distal end of the
antenna was connected in the same way via an interface box
to a signal acquisition interface board (IDAC; Syntech, Hil-
versum, The Netherlands) for signal transfer to a PC. EAD
signals and flame ionization detector (FID) responses were
simultaneously recorded.
892 JIM G. MANT ET AL.
FIG. 1. Phylogenetic relationships among the orchid Chiloglottis and its thynnine wasp pollinators, estimated by maximum parsimony
(MP). Orchid species are aligned with their specific pollinators. The three clades of Chiloglottis are pollinated by three groups of
Neozeleboria, except where indicated by diagonal line and boxes. The wasp tree is a strict consensus of three MP trees, using the combined
data of one nuclear (wingless) and two mitochondrial DNA (16S and cytochrome b) genes (tree length 1204, 366 parsimony informative
characters, CI 5 0.45, RI 5 0.48). The orchid tree is a strict consensus of 21 MP trees using chloroplast (trnT/L) and nuclear (ITS) data
(tree length 57, 44 characters, CI 5 0.91, RI 5 96). Bootstrap numbers for the wasps are for combined data above and separate 16S/
cytochrome b/wingless below the line; for Chiloglottis, combined data are given above and separate trnT-trnL/ITS below. Bootstraps
below 50% are represented as an X. Semi-bold lines indicate branches recovered also in separate analyses of 16S and cytochrome b.
Bold lines indicate branches recovered in independent analyses of each of the three genes.
Treatment of data
For each sample type, approximately five GC-EAD runs
were obtained. Peaks in the EAD recording were assumed to
be responses from the antennal receptors if they were de-
tectable in all recordings at the same recording time. For
calculation of the relative retention indices (RRI), 1 ml of
odor sample was injected in the GC together with 1 ml of a
standard mixture of C9-C30 alkanes. For each coinjection,
relative retention indices of biologically active peaks were
calculated according to the formula (RT2 2 RTX)/(RT2 2
RT1), where RTX is retention time of active compound and
RT1,2 are retention times of alkanes eluting before and after
the active compound.
RESULTS
Orchids
Separate phylogenetic analyses of the nuclear and chlo-
roplast data reveal a congruent pattern and pass the ILD test
(P 5 0.51). Three clades (A, B, C) are identified that cor-
respond to three groups recognized by both morphology and
flowering phenology (Figs. 1, 2). The nuclear and plastid
893SEXUAL DECEPTION
FIG. 2. Phylograms of the orchid Chiloglottis and its wasp pollinators estimated by maximum parsimony (MP). The wasp tree is based
on combined 16S and wingless data (one of two trees at length 378, 121 parsimony informative characters, CI 5 0.45, RI 5 0.54). The
orchid tree is one of 21 MP trees recovered from the analysis shown in Figure 1. Note the arrangement of taxa in the autumn flowering
Chiloglottis clade A varies among the 21 MP trees and reduces to polytomy in the strict consensus (Fig. 1). Bootstraps are given above
the line. Relative branch lengths are different in the orchid and wasp trees.
sequence data (Table 2) reveal considerable nucleotide dif-
ference between the three clades (average uncorrected di-
vergence A:B 5 1.0%, A:C 5 2.3%, B:C 5 2.6%) relative
to the variation within each clade (average A 5 0.2%, B 5
0.09%, C 5 0.08%). The monophyly of Chiloglottis is con-
firmed by outgroup comparison.
Wasps
Phylogenetic signal across the three genes satisfies the ILD
test (P 5 0.98), and separate analyses demonstrate consid-
erable topological congruence. The same three main clades
(X, Y, Z) are found when the two mitochondrial genes are
analyzed separately, and when all datasets are combined (Fig.
1). However, the relationships between those clades are not
well supported and are best represented as the soft polytomy
shown in Figure 1. These three clades are not strongly sup-
ported by the nuclear DNA data, which exhibits low ingroup
divergence. However, there are no nuclear DNA clades with
high bootstrap support (BS) that are incongruent with the
three main clades. The monophyly of the autumn emerging
Neozeleboria clade X and the species relationships within it
are congruent across all three genes, with the exception of
the relationships among N. proxima, N. sp. 30, and N. sp. 29,
which differ under 16S. However, the placement of Neoze-
leboria sp. 40 (pollinator of C. platyptera) with N. cryptoides
and N. ursitatum is not strongly supported (BS 5 56%, com-
894 JIM G. MANT ET AL.
TABLE 2. Molecular sequence results. Three loci were sequenced for the wasp pollinators (16S, cytochrome b, wingless) and two for the
orchids (ITS, trnT/L). Wasp ingroup includes Neozeleboria taxa only. Cytochrome b is sequenced for Neozeleboria only. Cytochrome b first,
second, and third codon positions are specified. 16S data excludes length variable regions.
Gene
Size of
fragment
(bp)
Variables sites
(outgroup)
Parsimony
informative
(outgroup)
% Divergence
uncorrected
(outgroup)
A 1 T
(%) Ti/Tv
16S
cytochrome b total
cytochrome b 1st
cytochrome b 2nd
484
684
228
228
95 (148)
320
87
36
66 (88)
237
63
19
1.7?11 (215.1)
8.8?23.2
6.1?19.4
0?9.6
75.1
73.8
68.2
69.7
0.79
1.11
1.0
1.19
cytochrome b 3rd
wingless
ITS
trnT-trnL
228
361
736?740
508?623
197
18 (42)
36
10
155
9 (33)
30
8
19.7?45.6
0?2.9 (216.4)
0?4.4
0?1.9
84
50.5
47.2
69.3
1.0
n/a
1.32
0.92
bined data), reflecting conflicting signal also in morpholog-
ical characters (J. G. Mant, unpubl. data). Most relationships
within clade Z are not well supported in any of the three
genes or in the combined dataset. Overall, the three Neoze-
leboria clades are largely corroborated by morphological
characters associated with the male genitalia (J. G. Mant,
unpubl. data) and correspond to differences in emergence
time (see Fig. 1).
Orchid?Wasp Phylogenetic Congruence
Fifteen of the 16 sampled Chiloglottis species are polli-
nated by members of the Neozeleboria clade of Thynninae,
as tested by outgroup comparison. The two datasets that in-
clude outgroups (16S and wingless) support the monophyly
of the Neozeleboria pollinators, and position Eirone sp. (pol-
linator of C. grammata) as distantly related. Eirone is in-
cluded in a distinct group sometimes recognized as the tribe
Ragagastrini (Given 1954). However, Arthrothynnus is esti-
mated as either sister to Neozeleboria (16S and combined
data) or embedded within that genus (wingless only). The
wingless data, in particular, strongly support the monophyly
and close affinity of the sampled Neozeleboria taxa plus Ar-
throthynnus (maximum 3% ingroup uncorrected divergence;
4.5?6.9% between ingroup and three outgroups; 16.4% di-
vergence between Eirone and ingroup).
Below the generic level, there is considerable phylogenetic
congruence between the Chiloglottis and Neozeleboria to-
pologies. One of the three Chiloglottis clades is exclusively
pollinated by a clade of Neozeleboria, whereas the other two
Chiloglottis clades are pollinated predominantly by species
in two corresponding clades of Neozeleboria (Fig. 1). The
autumn flowering clade A is restricted to autumn emerging
wasps of clade X. Similarly, the spring-summer flowering
clade C is pollinated by species from the spring-summer
emerging clade Z, with the exception of C. grammata. How-
ever, this topological congruence is contradicted by the third
orchid group, comprising C. truncata, C. trapeziformis, C.
platyptera, C. formicifera, and C. aff. formicifera. The first
three of these species use members of the poorly supported
clade Y, whereas the latter two use members of clade Z (Fig.
1).
The ILD test supports the strong association of the Chil-
oglottis and Neozeleboria phylogenetic signals, with the ex-
ception of C. formicifera and C. aff. formicifera. The ILD test
suggests the orchid and wasp datasets hold significantly dif-
ferent signals (P 5 0.01). However, the source of this in-
congruence derives from the above two species. When both
of these species (and their pollinators) are excluded, the or-
chid and wasp datasets are not significantly different (P 5
0.84). When only one of these species is excluded, the dif-
ference remains significant (P 5 0.01).
A statistical comparison of the relative branch lengths in
orchid and wasp trees was not undertaken due to the lack of
variation within the three clades of Chiloglottis. However, it
is noted that the relative branch length pattern in the Chil-
oglottis and Neozeleboria gene trees differ markedly (Fig. 2).
The patristic, or path-length, distances (Farris 1964) between
the basal nodes of clades A, B, and C and the basal node for
Chiloglottis are much longer than the patristic distances be-
tween the basal nodes of clades A, B, and C and the terminal
nodes. By contrast, the patristic distances between the basal
nodes of clades X, Y, and Z and the basal nodes for Neo-
zeleboria are mostly shorter than the patristic distances be-
tween the basal nodes of clades X, Y, and Z and the terminal
nodes. The degree of rate heterogeneity that would need to
be postulated to account for these differences within a cos-
peciational model seems much greater than any observed
heterogeneity in the phylograms. Moreover, an explanation
invoking rate heterogeneity is implausible because it would
require simultaneous deceleration of rates in three indepen-
dent orchid lineages or simultaneous acceleration in three
independent wasp lineages, or both. This suggests speciation
events in orchid and wasp groups occurred independently,
with Chiloglottis perhaps radiating onto an existing Neoze-
leboria lineage. Further phylogenetic resolution of the three
Chiloglottis species groups will be needed for statistical tests
of this hypothesis.
Biologically Active Floral Odor Compounds
In the three investigated orchid species, we found either
one or two peaks eliciting electroantennographic responses
in the respective pollinator antennae (Table 3, Fig. 3). Each
orchid-pollinator pair produced a distinct pattern of EAD
responses, although overlap in retention time and relative
retention index suggests that partially similar or even iden-
tical compounds are produced by the orchids for pollinator
attraction. Such overlap is evident in one active compound
in the two Chiloglottis species (RT 16.7), and another one
within C. trilabra and Arthrochilus huntianus (RT 16.8; Table
3). To test whether the different wasp pollinators are indeed
895SEXUAL DECEPTION
TABLE 3. Retention times (RT ) and relative retention indices (RRI) of biologically active compounds in orchid-odor samples tested on
pollinator and nonpollinator antennae.
Orchid sample Insect antenna Pollinator
RT (min) of active peaks (RRI)
Peak 1 Peak 2 Peak 3
Chiloglottis trilabra
C. seminuda
Arthrochilus huntianus
C. trilabra
Neozeleboria proxima
N. sp. 29
Arthrothynnus huntianus
A. huntianus
yes
yes
yes
no
16.72 (0.58)
16.71 (0.58)
16.82 (0.47)
16.81 (0.46)
16.82 (0.47)
18.16 (0.79)
FIG. 3. Gas chromatography with electroantennographic detection
recordings of (A) Chiloglottis trilabra and Neozeleboria proxima;
(B) C. seminuda and N. sp. 29; (C) Arthrochilus huntianus and
Arthrothynnus huntianus. The peaks in the flame-ionization-detector
(FID) traces represent odor compounds present in the orchid flow-
ers. The electroantennographic detector (EAD) traces display
summed responses of olfactory neurones to particular odor com-
pounds (Arn et al. 1975). Because FID and EAD responses are
recorded simultaneously, EAD responses correspond to peaks at the
same recording time. The numbered peaks refer to distinct antennal
responses, the retention times of which are found in Table 3. Peak
1 and 2 in C. trilabra elute closely together, but are clearly resolved
as two peaks in the EAD responses. The lack of clear FID peaks
accompanying the EAD responses indicates the antennae are more
sensitive to the presence of the odor compound in the samples than
the gas chromatograph equipment.
responding to identical compounds in the different orchid
species, we performed a reciprocal test of the Arthrothynnus
huntianus EAD response to C. trilabra, which is normally
pollinated by N. proxima. Arthothynnus huntianus, the pol-
linator of A. huntianus, responded to the identical peak in the
C. trilabra samples as did N. proxima. This finding strongly
suggests sharing of active compounds between orchid spe-
cies.
DISCUSSION
Phylogenetic Congruence
Higher-level taxonomic patterns in the use of pollinators
are usually identified simply by noting taxonomic congruence
with a pollinating insect group (Anderson 1979; Chase and
Hills 1992; Johnson and Steiner 2000). As much as current
taxonomy reflects phylogeny, this procedure might allow the
recognition of pollinator conservatism, yet only at the level
of traditional Linnean hierarchies. In this study, the esti-
mation of phylogenetic relationships in both orchids and their
wasp pollinators has enabled the degree of pollinator spe-
cialization in a sexually deceptive genus to be examined at
a range of hierarchical levels. Phylogenetic congruence be-
tween Chiloglottis and its thynnine pollinators is evident at
three of those levels. First, the genera in the monophyletic
Drakaeinae (containing Chiloglottis; Kores et al. 2001) are
pollinated by wasps from subfamily Thynninae, with the ex-
ception of C. major, which is pollinated by the sawfly, Pter-
ygophorus (Symphyta: Pergidae). Second, 15 of 16 sampled
species of Chiloglottis are pollinated by Neozeleboria species,
which are together resolved as a monophyletic group (in-
cluding Arthrothynnus). Finally, two of the three clades that
comprise Chiloglottis are pollinated by two clades within
Neozeleboria. As in other plant-insect interactions, the degree
of specialization may tend to be more diffuse at the level of
closely related congenerics. In Chiloglottis, incongruence
among the spring-flowering Formicifera clade and two
spring-emerging groups within Neozeleboria (Fig. 1) indi-
cates specialization is incomplete at the intrageneric group
level.
Three exceptions to the Neozeleboria pollination of Chil-
oglottis are known, only one of which could be sampled in
the present study. These are Eirone (pollinating C. gram-
mata), Arthrothynnus latus (C. diphylla), and Chilothynnus
palachilus (C. palachila; Bower 1996; unpubl. data). Eirone
represents a substantial departure from the dominant pattern
of specialization. In contrast, molecular data suggest that Ar-
thothynnus is either sister to Neozeleboria or nests within that
genus. We predict future molecular studies will also dem-
896 JIM G. MANT ET AL.
onstrate the close relationship of Chilothynnus given the mor-
phological affinity it shows to Neozeleboria (Brown 1996a,
1996b). The sharing of pollinating wasp genera between Chil-
oglottis and Arthrochilus is consistent with the general pattern
of pollinator conservatism found among the Drakaeinae.
Overall, it is emphasized that the diversification of Chilog-
lottis has involved, with few exceptions, pollinator shifts
among one clade of wasps within the subfamily Thynninae,
a group comprising more than 50 genera and more than 500
described species in Australia (Given 1954).
The orchid sequence results reveal an interesting disparity
in sequence divergence between, relative to within, the three
Chiloglottis species groups (Fig. 2). This pattern is consistent
with either a recent radiation of species within each of the
groups or the erosion of molecular diversity via gene flow
and selection among the recognized species. An explanation
invoking heterogeneity of molecular evolutionary rates is im-
plausible because it would require simultaneous deceleration
of rates in three independent lineages. However, gene flow
cannot account for the lack of variation in the nonrecombin-
ing chloroplast locus. Rather, a loss of ancestral chloroplast
haplotypes needs to be invoked. To further distinguish be-
tween these processes, more variable multilocus markers are
being investigated.
Pollinator Responses to Orchid Odor
Each of the three pollinator species sampled have a distinct
GC-EAD response to the orchid odors. These species-specific
responses are consistent with field experiments demonstrat-
ing specific pollinator attraction. Although electrophysiolog-
ical activity of odor compounds does not, per se, prove a role
for those compounds in the mating behavior of the insect,
numerous previous investigations have demonstrated this link
(e.g., Struble and Arn 1984). In the European sexually de-
ceptive Ophrys sphegodes, electrophysiologically active odor
compounds elicited mating behavior in the pollinator bee,
Andrena nigroaenea (Schiestl et al. 1999, 2000). The re-
sponses of male thynnines to orchid odor compounds are
likely to mirror the responses to sex pheromones documented
in the Andrena pollination of Ophrys. However, thynnine
wasps appear to respond to a relatively simple odor blend
containing one or two active compounds, unlike the solitary
bee, A. nigroaenea, which responds to a blend of 14 com-
pounds (Schiestl et al. 2000).
Similarity of GC-EAD Responses across Species
The results of our GC-EAD experiments not only reveal
orchid odors elicit distinct responses in each pollinator spe-
cies, but that these responses center on similar active com-
pounds. Theoretically, it is possible that different substances
have the same retention times on a particular column. How-
ever, in our data, the similarity of these compounds is strong-
ly suggested given that they originate from closely related
orchids and are responded to by closely related wasps. Our
GC-EAD setup uses sex pheromone receptors as a detector
in the chemical analyses (Arn et al. 1975). Because one type
of sex pheromone receptor typically responds to only one or
a few similar compounds (Hansson 1995), it is possible to
detect particular compounds in a sample. The response of A.
huntianus to the same peak in C. trilabra as its pollinator,
Neozeleboria proxima, therefore strongly supports a sharing
of active odor compounds between orchid taxa.
Further support for these interpretations has recently
emerged from two largely allopatric species, C. trapeziformis
and C. valida. GC-EAD revealed that a single electrophysi-
ologically active compound is shared by both orchids (F. P.
Schiestl, unpubl. data). Subsequently, chemical identification
and bioassays of the synthetic compound with C. trapezifor-
mis have confirmed that this single compound elicits attrac-
tion and mating behavior in the pollinator males in equal
intensity to the floral odor (F. P. Schiestl, unpubl. data).
Mating characters are often presumed to be highly hom-
oplasious in relation to other suites of characters, yet there
is little evidence to support such a generalization (see review
by de Queiroz and Wimberger 1993). In thynnine wasps,
pheromone differences between species may be constituted
by variation in only a few compounds, with related taxa shar-
ing broadly similar pheromone constituents. Thus, thynnine
pheromones are likely to be strongly influenced by phylog-
eny. Unfortunately, given our small sample size, this sug-
gestion must remain speculative. Comparative data on the
sex pheromones of solitary Hymenoptera are lacking (Ayasse
et al. 2001). However, among other sex pheromone systems,
such as the well-characterized Lepidoptera, the evidence in-
dicates that variation in pheromone chemistry may be con-
gruent with phylogeny. Female lepidopteran sex pheromones
achieve species-specific attraction with the use of few com-
ponents that are conservative amongst taxonomic groups,
such as the predominantly 14-carbon chain in subfamily Tor-
tricinae and 12-carbon chain in Olethreutinae (Roelofs and
Brown 1982; Lo¨fsdedt and Kozlov 1996).
How Is Pollinator Conservatism Maintained?
Whereas pollinator shifts among Chiloglottis species have
mostly been among wasps that are closely related, it would
seem unlikely that this is a coevolutionary response to clad-
ogenesis in Neozeleboria. The three instances of phylogenetic
incongruence indicate that speciation among Chiloglottis can
be independent from that of thynnine wasps. Furthermore,
relative branch length differences between the plant and in-
sect trees suggest speciation events in the two groups were
not contemporaneous. Nonetheless, the level of phylogenetic
conservatism in Chiloglottis is surprising for an orchid pol-
lination system that would appear to favor both rapid and
flexible shifts in pollinators (Paulus and Gack 1990; Nilsson
1992).
We suggest that several phylogenetically influenced factors
have interacted to constrain the pattern of pollinator change
in Chiloglottis. At the outset, any shift to a new pollinator
will depend on the ecological availability of pollinator re-
sources in a given geographical area and flowering time. For
Neozeleboria, we have seen that variation in wasp emergence
phenology can be predicted by phylogenetic relationship. In
this case, all autumn-emerging pollinators form a clade, with
the spring-summer Neozeleboria forming two groups (Fig.
1). Thus, for example, if pollinator shifts among autumn-
flowering Chiloglottis occur mostly between Neozeleboria
with the same autumn phenology, then those shifts are likely
897SEXUAL DECEPTION
to be among wasps from the same clade. Overall, however,
the chemical mimicry of female wasp pheromones may op-
erate to constrain the potential pollinator resource to the nar-
row taxonomic range of wasps seen in Chiloglottis. If the
pheromonal differences among thynnine taxa are themselves
phylogenetically constrained, such that related wasps have
similar pheromone signals, then changes in floral odor suf-
ficient to attract a distinct pollinator will tend also to attract
a wasp species that is closely related. Our comparative GC-
EAD data are at least consistent with the hypothesis of shared
pheromone components among related wasp taxa. Converse-
ly, it remains to be seen whether convergence in sex pher-
omone signals among more distantly related hymenopteran
taxa can explain the phylogenetically disparate shifts seen
within Chiloglottis and among other orchid taxa. In conclu-
sion, we suggest that the hierarchical pattern of sex com-
munication signals found among pollinators may largely
frame the pattern of pollinator shifts in sexually deceptive
orchids. In the case of Chiloglottis, the chemical mimicry of
thynnine wasp pheromones that are themselves subject to
phylogenetic constraints may lead to pollinator conservatism
at a range of taxonomic levels.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The research for this study has been generously supported
by the Hermon Slade Foundation and the Royal Botanic Gar-
dens, Sydney. Funding for the investigation of the wasp re-
sponses to orchid odors was provided by the Australian Na-
tional University, Australian Orchid Foundation, and the
American Orchid Society. JGM was financially supported by
an Australian Postgraduate Award and FPS by the Fonds fuer
wissenschaftliche Forschung, Austria. Thanks in particular
to L. Cook for laboratory assistance and advice, and to M.
Ayasse for allowing us to work in his laboratory. Thanks also
to M. Batley, C. Bower, G. Brown, G. Cassis, M. Clements,
and D. Jones for discussion and advice. For laboratory or
field assistance, thanks to J. Armstrong, C. Bower, R. Butch-
er, G. Goodes, P. Jobson, G. Leidreiter, C. Porter, A. Perkins,
and H. Wapstra.
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