Species overlap, speciation and the evolution of aggregation pheromones in bark beetles

Ecology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 202-212

  Symonds, Matthew R E ^a,b   Elgar, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical communication; Reinforcement; Reproductive character displacement; Scolytidae; Signal evolution; Sympatry; Syntopy

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION PHEROMONE; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; SIGNALING; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SYMPATRY;

COLEOPTERA; DENDROCTONUS; IPS; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 1642291049     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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