The timing of insect/plant diversification: Might Tetraopes (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) and asclepias (Asclepiadaceae) have co-evolved?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 553-577

  Farrell, B D ^a   Mitter, C ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardenolides; Coevolution; Escalation; Herbivores; Phylogeny; Plant animal interactions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEVOLUTION; LONGHORN BEETLE; MILKWEED; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; APOCYNACEAE; ASCLEPIAS; CERAMBYCIDAE; COLEOPTERA; INSECTA; TETRAOPES;

EID: 0031861205     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.1998.tb00329.x     Document Type: Article

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