Flower clades and fruit clades: Trade-offs in color diversification across angiosperms

Flowers and fruits are two major phases of plant reproduction that often use colorful signals to attract animal mutualists. Fruits develop from the ovaries of flowers, and both organs use the same suites of pigments to create color. Due to these developmental links and functional similarities, we sought to test for correlations in flower and fruit color lability across clades. We selected 51 clades (2960 species) of animal-pollinated and animal-dispersed (i.e., fleshy-fruited) plants and scored flower and fruit color into eight discrete (human-perceived) categories for the same set of species in each clade. We used stochastic character mapping to estimate the number and rates of transitions among colors in flowers and fruits. We demonstrate a negative correlation in the number of transitions in flower and fruit color across clades (R2 = 0.41; p < 0.001). Among animal-pollinated and animal-dispersed clades, 67% are “fruit clades” biased towards fruit color lability, while 29% are “flo..., , # Data from: Flower clades and fruit clades: Trade-offs in color diversification across angiosperms

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.r4xgxd2sc](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r4xgxd2sc)

## Description of the data and file structure

We collected data on flower and fruit color (methods described in the main manuscript) across 51 clades of angiosperms in order to investigate 1) differential color distributions across clades, 2) whether flower and fruit color lability are negatively correlated across clades, and 3) whether transitions rates differ between flowers and fruits.

### Files and variables

#### File: trees.zip

**Description:** A zip file containing 51 phylogenies for the studied clades.

#### File: final_dataset.csv

**Description:** A .csv file containing data on each species, which clade it belongs to, and its flower and fruit color.

##### Variables

* clade: clade name, which may include species from multiple genera if the focal genus was not non-monophyletic
* species: genus_s...,