The evolution of generalization? Parasitoid flies and the perils of inferring host range evolution from phylogenies

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 325-336

  Stireman III, J O ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Ecological specialization; Evolutionary diversification; Tachinidae

Indexed keywords

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; RNA 28S;

EVOLUTION; GENERALIST; PARASITOID; RECONSTRUCTION; SPECIALIZATION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLY; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, GENETIC; PARASITES; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

TACHINIDAE;

EID: 14844360185     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2004.00850.x     Document Type: Article

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