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<strong><span style="font-size:24px"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">Kate Ostevik</span></span></strong></span></h3>
<div style="text-align:center"><span style="color:#000000"><strong><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:18px">"Lessons from California’s Floral Diversity"</span></span></strong></span></div>
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<p style="line-height:125%;margin:10px 0;padding:0;color:#757575;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:16px;text-align:left"><span style="color:#000000"><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="font-family:lucida sans unicode,lucida grande,sans-serif">California’s extraordinary floral diversity provides an opportunity to understand the processes that generate and maintain biodiversity. In the Ostevik lab, we study plant diversification through two complementary lenses: adaptation and speciation. I will highlight ongoing projects that illustrate both. First, I will discuss adaptation to drought in wild sunflower (<em>Helianthus annuus</em>). In a common-garden experiment, populations from more arid regions of California flower early. This is consistent with a drought-escape strategy, and this seems to have tradeoffs with drought avoidance and tolerance. A resurrection experiment comparing ancestral and contemporary populations similarly reveals a shift toward earlier flowering under increasingly dry conditions that has consequences for interactions with other species. Second, I will discuss a putative case of homoploid hybrid speciation in southern California <em>Penstemon</em>. <em>Penstemon clevelandii</em> is reproductively isolated from both parental species, <em>P. spectabilis</em> and <em>P. centranthifolius</em>. Further, although the parents are also strongly reproductively isolated, genomic evidence suggests that hybridization between them contributed to the formation of <em>P. clevelandii</em>. However, <em>P. clevelandii</em> is not a simple 50:50 mixture of the parental genomes. Instead, our results are more consistent with introgressive speciation. Determining whether this introgression directly contributed to the evolution of reproductive barriers will require further work.</span></span></span></p>
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