One host shift leads to another? Evidence of host-race formation in a predaceous gall-boring beetle

Evolution

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 168-172

  Eubanks, Micky D ^a   Blair, Catherine P ^b   Abrahamson, Warren G ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diversification; Ecological speciation; Host race; Host plant specialization; Mordellistena convicta

Indexed keywords

BEETLE; HOST SPECIFICITY; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY);

ANIMALIA; ASTERACEAE; CETONIINAE; COLEOPTERA; DIPTERA; EUROSTA; EUROSTA SOLIDAGINIS; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; MORDELLA MARGINATA; MORDELLIDAE; MORDELLISTENA CONVICTA; SOLIDAGO; SOLIDAGO ALTISSIMA; SOLIDAGO CANADENSIS VAR. SCABRA; SOLIDAGO GIGANTEA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 0037283735     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0014-3820.2003.tb00226.x     Document Type: Article

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