Do food-plant preferences of modern families of phytophagous insects and mites reflect past evolution with plants?

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 51-83

  Ward, Lena K ^a   Hackshaw, Alan ^b   Clarke, Ralph T ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conifers; Correspondence analysis; Evolutionary advancement; Ferns; Flowering plants; Insect families; Phytophagous mites; Plant evolution; Plant families

Indexed keywords

CONIFEROUS TREE; EVOLUTION; FERN; FLOWERING; HOST PLANT; INSECT; PHYLOGENETICS;

ACARI; ASTERACEAE; ASTERALES; CAMPANULIDS; CARYOPHYLLALES; COMMELINIDS; CONIFEROPHYTA; DICOTYLEDONEAE; DIPTERA; FABALES; FILICOPHYTA; GYMNOSPERMAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; LAMIALES; LEPIDOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MALPIGHIALES; POACEAE;

EID: 0037268971     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1095-8312.2003.00128.x     Document Type: Article

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