Olle Pellmyr, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
1981-1985 Zoology Uppsala University, Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden 
 1986-1990 Botany Washington State University, Pullman, WA, United States 
 1987-1990 Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, United States 
 1990-1994 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 
 1994-2002 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 
 2002-2011 Biological Sciences University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States 
Area:
evolution, botany, entomology, phylogenetics, coevolution, yucca, yucca moths

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2019 Pellmyr O, Kjellberg F, Herre EA, Kawakita A, Hembry DH, Holland JN, Terrazas T, Clement W, Segraves KA, Althoff DM. Active pollination drives selection for reduced pollen-ovule ratios. American Journal of Botany. PMID 31889299 DOI: 10.1002/Ajb2.1412  0.368
2013 Yoder JB, Smith CI, Rowley DJ, Flatz R, Godsoe W, Drummond C, Pellmyr O. Effects of gene flow on phenotype matching between two varieties of Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia; Agavaceae) and their pollinators. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 26: 1220-33. PMID 23516990 DOI: 10.1111/Jeb.12134  0.721
2012 Althoff DM, Segraves KA, Smith CI, Leebens-Mack J, Pellmyr O. Geographic isolation trumps coevolution as a driver of yucca and yucca moth diversification Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 62: 898-906. PMID 22178365 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2011.11.024  0.544
2011 Smith CI, Tank S, Godsoe W, Levenick J, Strand E, Esque T, Pellmyr O. Comparative phylogeography of a coevolved community: Concerted population expansions in Joshua trees and four Yucca moths Plos One. 6. PMID 22028785 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0025628  0.422
2011 Svensson GP, Pellmyr O, Raguso RA. Pollinator attraction to volatiles from virgin and pollinated host flowers in a yucca/moth obligate mutualism Oikos. 120: 1577-1583. DOI: 10.1111/J.1600-0706.2011.19258.X  0.441
2010 Godsoe W, Yoder JB, Smith CI, Drummond CS, Pellmyr O. Absence of population-level phenotype matching in an obligate pollination mutualism. Journal of Evolutionary Biology. 23: 2739-46. PMID 21121087 DOI: 10.1111/J.1420-9101.2010.02120.X  0.72
2010 Yoder JB, Smith CI, Pellmyr O. How to become a yucca moth: Minimal trait evolution needed to establish the obligate pollination mutualism. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London. 100: 847-855. PMID 20730026 DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.2010.01478.X  0.747
2010 Drummond CS, Xue HJ, Yoder JB, Pellmyr O. Host-associated divergence and incipient speciation in the yucca moth Prodoxus coloradensis (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) on three species of host plants. Heredity. 105: 183-96. PMID 20010961 DOI: 10.1038/Hdy.2009.154  0.773
2009 Drummond CS, Smith CI, Pellmyr O. Species identification and sibship assignment of sympatric larvae in the yucca moths Tegeticula synthetica and Tegeticula antithetica (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae). Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1369-72. PMID 21564909 DOI: 10.1111/J.1755-0998.2009.02696.X  0.537
2009 Smith CI, Drummond CS, Godsoe W, Yoder JB, Pellmyr O. Host specificity and reproductive success of yucca moths (Tegeticula spp. Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) mirror patterns of gene flow between host plant varieties of the Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia: Agavaceae). Molecular Ecology. 18: 5218-29. PMID 19919591 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04428.X  0.766
2009 Godsoe W, Strand E, Smith CI, Yoder JB, Esque TC, Pellmyr O. Divergence in an obligate mutualism is not explained by divergent climatic factors. The New Phytologist. 183: 589-99. PMID 19659584 DOI: 10.1111/J.1469-8137.2009.02942.X  0.731
2009 Drummond CS, Smith CI, Pellmyr O. Species identification and sibship assignment of sympatric larvae in the yucca moths Tegeticula synthetica and Tegeticula antithetica (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) Molecular Ecology Resources. 9: 1369-1372. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02696.x  0.301
2009 Pellmyr O, Yoder JB, Godsoe WK. Prodoxus praedictus, N. SP., A new bogus yucca moth from Southern California Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society. 63: 137-140.  0.611
2008 Smith CI, Godsoe WK, Tank S, Yoder JB, Pellmyr O. Distinguishing coevolution from covicariance in an obligate pollination mutualism: asynchronous divergence in Joshua tree and its pollinators. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 62: 2676-87. PMID 18752609 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.2008.00500.X  0.772
2008 Godsoe W, Yoder JB, Smith CI, Pellmyr O. Coevolution and divergence in the Joshua tree/yucca moth mutualism. The American Naturalist. 171: 816-23. PMID 18462130 DOI: 10.1086/587757  0.726
2008 Okuyama Y, Pellmyr O, Kato M. Parallel floral adaptations to pollination by fungus gnats within the genus Mitella (Saxifragaceae) Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 46: 560-575. PMID 18248825 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2007.09.020  0.546
2008 Smith CI, Pellmyr O, Althoff DM, Balcázar-Lara M, Leebens-Mack J, Segraves KA. Pattern and timing of diversification in Yucca (Agavaceae): Specialized pollination does not escalate rates of diversification Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 275: 249-258. PMID 18048283 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2007.1405  0.477
2008 Segraves KA, Althoff DM, Pellmyr O. The evolutionary ecology of cheating: Does superficial oviposition facilitate the evolution of a cheater yucca moth? Ecological Entomology. 33: 765-770. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-2311.2008.01031.X  0.379
2008 Pellmyr O, Balcázar-Lara M, Segraves KA, Althoff DM, Littlefield RJ. Phylogeny of the pollinating yucca moths, with revision of Mexican species (Tegeticula and Parategeticula; Lepidoptera, Prodoxidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 152: 297-314. DOI: 10.1111/J.1096-3642.2007.00361.X  0.421
2007 Pellmyr O, Segraves KA, Althoff DM, Balcázar-Lara M, Leebens-Mack J. The phylogeny of yuccas Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 43: 493-501. PMID 17289405 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2006.12.015  0.444
2007 Althoff DM, Svensson GP, Pellmyr O. 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. 43: 398-406. PMID 17116409 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2006.10.015  0.558
2006 Svensson GP, Pellmyr O, Raguso RA. Strong conservation of floral scent composition in two allopatric yuccas Journal of Chemical Ecology. 32: 2657-2665. PMID 17131186 DOI: 10.1007/S10886-006-9189-6  0.399
2006 Althoff DM, Segraves KA, Leebens-Mack J, Pellmyr O. Patterns of speciation in the yucca moths: Parallel species radiations within the Tegeticula yuccasella species complex Systematic Biology. 55: 398-410. PMID 16684719 DOI: 10.1080/10635150600697325  0.486
2006 Pellmyr O, Balcázar-Lara M, Althoff DM, Segraves KA, Leebens-Mack J. Phylogeny and life history evolution of Prodoxus yucca moths (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) Systematic Entomology. 31: 1-20. DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-3113.2005.00301.X  0.362
2006 Crabb BA, Pellmyr O. Impact of the third trophic level in an obligate mutualism: Do yucca plants benefit from parasitoids of yucca moths? International Journal of Plant Sciences. 167: 119-124. DOI: 10.1086/497844  0.483
2005 Svensson GP, Hickman MO, Bartram S, Boland W, Pellmyr O, Raguso RA. Chemistry and geographic variation of floral scent in Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae). American Journal of Botany. 92: 1624-31. PMID 21646079 DOI: 10.3732/Ajb.92.10.1624  0.396
2005 Segraves KA, Althoff DM, Pellmyr O. Limiting cheaters in mutualism: Evidence from hybridization between mutualist and cheater yucca moths Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 272: 2195-2201. PMID 16191630 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2005.3201  0.477
2005 Althoff DM, Segraves KA, Pellmyr O. Community context of an obligate mutualism: Pollinator and florivore effects on Yucca filamentosa Ecology. 86: 905-913. DOI: 10.1890/04-1454  0.497
2004 Segraves KA, Pellmyr O. Testing the out-of-Florida hypothesis on the origin of cheating in the yucca-yucca moth mutualism Evolution. 58: 2266-2279. PMID 15562689 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2004.Tb01602.X  0.495
2004 Leebens-Mack J, Pellmyr O. Patterns of Genetic Structure among Populations of an Oligophagous Pollinating Yucca Moth (Tegeticula yuccasella) Journal of Heredity. 95: 127-135. PMID 15073228 DOI: 10.1093/Jhered/Esh025  0.472
2004 Crabb BA, Pellmyr O. Defection by plants in the yucca-yucca moth association: A test of the cheater plant hypothesis for Yucca treculeana Oikos. 107: 321-328. DOI: 10.1111/J.0030-1299.2004.13154.X  0.498
2003 Marr DL, Pellmyr O. Effect of pollinator-inflicted ovule damage on floral abscission in the yucca-yucca moth mutualism: the role of mechanical and chemical factors. Oecologia. 136: 236-43. PMID 12756527 DOI: 10.1007/S00442-003-1279-3  0.415
2003 Pellmyr O, Segraves KA. 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. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2003)096[0716:Pdwaom]2.0.Co;2  0.534
2002 Althoff DM, Pellmyr O. Examining genetic structure in a bogus yucca moth: A sequential approach to phylogeography Evolution. 56: 1632-1643. PMID 12353756 DOI: 10.1111/J.0014-3820.2002.Tb01475.X  0.422
2002 Pellmyr O, Krenn HW. Origin of a complex key innovation in an obligate insect-plant mutualism Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 99: 5498-5502. PMID 11960006 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.072588699  0.448
2001 Marr DL, Brock MT, Pellmyr O. Coexistence of mutualists and antagonists: exploring the impact of cheaters on the yucca - yucca moth mutualism. Oecologia. 128: 454-63. PMID 24549915 DOI: 10.1007/S004420100669  0.476
2001 Althoff DM, Groman JD, Segraves KA, Pellmyr O. Phylogeographic structure in the bogus yucca moth Prodoxus quinquepunctellus (Prodoxidae): Comparisons with coexisting pollinator yucca moths Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 21: 117-127. PMID 11603942 DOI: 10.1006/Mpev.2001.0995  0.545
2001 Segraves KA, Pellmyr O. 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. PMID 11380881 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.2001.01275.X  0.459
2000 Pellmyr O, Leebens-Mack J. Reversal of Mutualism as a Mechanism for Adaptive Radiation in Yucca Moths. The American Naturalist. 156: S62-S76. PMID 29592582 DOI: 10.1086/303416  0.512
2000 Marr DL, Leebens-Mack J, Elms L, Pellmyr O. Pollen dispersal in Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae): the paradox of self-pollination behavior by Tegeticula yuccasella (Prodoxidae). American Journal of Botany. 87: 670-7. PMID 10811791  0.335
2000 Marr DL, Leebens-Mack J, Elms L, Pellmyr O. Pollen dispersal in Yucca filamentosa (Agavaceae): The paradox of self-pollination behavior by Tegeticula yuccasella (Prodoxidae) American Journal of Botany. 87: 670-677. DOI: 10.2307/2656853  0.44
2000 Huth CJ, Pellmyr O. Pollen-mediated selective abortion in yuccas and its consequences for the plant-pollinator mutualism Ecology. 81: 1100-1107. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[1100:Pmsaiy]2.0.Co;2  0.461
2000 Pellmyr O, Balcázar-Lara M. 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. DOI: 10.1603/0013-8746(2000)093[0432:Sotymg]2.0.Co;2  0.402
1999 Huth CJ, Pellmyr O. Yucca moth oviposition and pollination behavior is affected by past flower visitors: evidence for a host-marking pheromone. Oecologia. 119: 593-599. PMID 28307719 DOI: 10.1007/S004420050824  0.375
1999 Pellmyr O, Leebens-Mack J. Forty million years of mutualism: Evidence for eocene origin of the yucca-yucca moth association Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 96: 9178-9183. PMID 10430916 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.96.16.9178  0.481
1999 Groman JD, Pellmyr O. The pollination biology of Manfreda virginica (Agavaceae): Relative contribution of diurnal and nocturnal visitors Oikos. 87: 373-381. DOI: 10.2307/3546753  0.499
1999 Pellmyr O. Systematic revision of the yucca moths in the Tegeticula yuccasella complex (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae) north of Mexico Systematic Entomology. 24: 243-271. DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-3113.1999.00079.X  0.457
1998 Leebens-Mack J, Pellmyr O, Brock M. HOST SPECIFICITY AND THE GENETIC STRUCTURE OF TWO YUCCA MOTH SPECIES IN A YUCCA HYBRID ZONE. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 52: 1376-1382. PMID 28565394 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1998.Tb02019.X  0.499
1998 Raguso RA, Pellmyr O. Dynamic headspace analysis of floral volatiles: A comparison of methods Oikos. 81: 238-254. DOI: 10.2307/3547045  0.325
1998 Pellmyr O, Leebens-Mack J, Thompson JN. Herbivores and molecular clocks as tools in plant biogeography Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 63: 367-378. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.1998.Tb01523.X  0.613
1998 Leebens-Mack J, Pellmyr O, Brock M. Host specificity and the genetic structure of two Yucca moth species in a Yucca hybrid zone Evolution. 52: 1376-1382.  0.315
1997 Brown JM, Leebens-Mack JH, Thompson JN, Pellmyr O, Harrison RG. Phylogeography and host association in a pollinating seed parasite Greya politella (Lepidoptera: Prodoxidae). Molecular Ecology. 6: 215-24. PMID 9076976 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.1997.T01-1-00171.X  0.622
1997 Huth CJ, Pellmyr O. Non-random fruit retention in Yucca filamentosa: Consequences for an obligate mutualism Oikos. 78: 576-584. DOI: 10.2307/3545620  0.494
1997 Pellmyr O. Pollinating seed eaters: Why is active pollination so rare? Ecology. 78: 1655-1660. DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1997)078[1655:Psewia]2.0.Co;2  0.468
1997 Pellmyr O, Massey LK, Hamrick JL, Feist MA. Genetic consequences of specialization: Yucca moth behavior and self- pollination in yuccas Oecologia. 109: 273-278. DOI: 10.1007/S004420050083  0.45
1996 Pellmyr O, Thompson JN. Sources of variation in pollinator contribution within a guild: the effects of plant and pollinator factors. Oecologia. 107: 595-604. PMID 28307405 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00333953  0.63
1996 Pellmyr O, Leebens-Mack J, Huth CJ. Non-mutualistic yucca moths and their evolutionary consequences Nature. 380: 155-156. PMID 8600388 DOI: 10.1038/380155A0  0.473
1996 Pellmyr O, Thompson JN, Brown JM, Harrison RG. Evolution of pollination and mutualism in the yucca moth lineage American Naturalist. 148: 827-847. DOI: 10.1086/285958  0.64
1996 Pellmyr O, Thompson JN. Sources of variation in pollinator contribution within a guild: The effects of plant and pollinator factors Oecologia. 107: 595-604.  0.5
1995 Pellmyr O. Windows of fruit production in yuccas? No.A critique of James et al Oikos. 72: 145-147. DOI: 10.2307/3546048  0.395
1994 Brown JM, Pellmyr O, Thompson JN, Harrison RG. 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: 128-41. PMID 8121281 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040087  0.576
1994 Brown JM, Pellmyr O, Thompson JN, Harrison RG. Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny of the prodoxidae (Lepidoptera: Incurvarioidea) indicates rapid ecological diversification of yucca moths Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 87: 795-802. DOI: 10.1093/Aesa/87.6.795  0.581
1994 Pellmyr O, Huth CJ. Evolutionary stability of mutualism between yuccas and yucca moths Nature. 372: 257-260. DOI: 10.1038/372257A0  0.516
1992 Pellmyr O. Evolution of insect pollination and angiosperm diversification. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 7: 46-9. PMID 21235949 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(92)90105-K  0.416
1992 Pellmyr O, Thompson JN. Multiple occurrences of mutualism in the yucca moth lineage. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 89: 2927-9. PMID 11607287 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.89.7.2927  0.609
1992 Soltis DE, Soltis PS, Thompson JN, Pellmyr O. Chloroplast DNA Variation in Lithophragma (Saxifragaceae) Systematic Botany. 17: 607. DOI: 10.2307/2419730  0.471
1992 Thompson JN, Pellmyr O. Mutualism with pollinating seed parasites amid co-pollinators: constraints on specialization Ecology. 73: 1780-1791. DOI: 10.2307/1940029  0.609
1992 Pellmyr O. The phylogeny of a mutualism: evolution and coadaptation between Trollius and its seed-parasitic pollinators Biological Journal of the Linnean Society. 47: 337-365. DOI: 10.1111/J.1095-8312.1992.Tb00674.X  0.554
1992 Pellmyr O. Evolution of insect pollination and angiosperm diversification Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 7: 46-49. DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(92)90105-K  0.403
1991 Pellmyr O. Plant-Animal Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions American Entomologist. 37: 244-247. DOI: 10.1093/ae/37.4.244a  0.341
1991 Pellmyr O, Tang W, Groth I, Bergström G, Thiens LB. Cycad cone and angiosperm floral volatiles: Inferences for the evolution of insect pollination Biochemical Systematics and Ecology. 19: 623-627. DOI: 10.1016/0305-1978(91)90078-E  0.395
1991 Bergström G, Groth I, Pellmyr O, Endress PK, Thien LB, Hübener A, Francke W. Chemical basis of a highly specific mutualism: Chiral esters attract pollinating beetles in Eupomatiaceae Phytochemistry. 30: 3221-3225. DOI: 10.1016/0031-9422(91)83179-O  0.348
1990 Pellmyr O, Thien LB, Bergström G, Groth I. Pollination of New Caledonian Winteraceae: Opportunistic shifts or parallel radiation with their pollinators? Plant Systematics and Evolution. 173: 143-157. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00940859  0.448
1989 Pellmyr O. The cost of mutualism: interactions between Trollius europaeus and its pollinating parasites. Oecologia. 78: 53-59. PMID 28311901 DOI: 10.1007/BF00377197  0.457
1989 Thompson JN, Pellmyr O. Origins of variance in seed number and mass: interaction of sex expression and herbivory in Lomatium salmoniflorum. Oecologia. 79: 395-402. PMID 23921406 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00384320  0.585
1987 Pellmyr O, Bergström G, Groth I. Floral fragrances in Actaea, using differential chromatograms to discern between floral and vegetative volatiles Phytochemistry. 26: 1603-1606. DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9422(00)82253-0  0.464
1986 Pellmyr O. Three pollination morphs in Cimicifuga simplex; incipient speciation due to inferiority in competition. Oecologia. 68: 304-307. PMID 28310144 DOI: 10.1007/BF00384804  0.411
1986 Pellmyr O, Thien LB. INSECT REPRODUCTION AND FLORAL FRAGRANCES: KEYS TO THE EVOLUTION OF THE ANGIOSPERMS? Taxon. 35: 76-85. DOI: 10.2307/1221036  0.443
1985 Pellmyr O. The pollination biology of Actaea pachypoda and A. rubra (including A. erythrocarpa) in northern Michigan and Finland. Bulletin - Torrey Botanical Club. 112: 265-273.  0.305
1985 Pellmyr O. Pollination ecology of Cimicifuga arizonica ( Ranunculaceae). Botanical Gazette. 146: 404-412.  0.381
1984 Pellmyr O. The pollination ecology of Actaea spicata (Ranunculaceae) Nordic Journal of Botany. 4: 443-456. DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-1051.1984.tb02044.x  0.384
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