Pollen-host specificity and evolutionary patterns of host switching in a clade of specialist bees (Apoidea: Diadasia)

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 487-505

  Sipes, Sedonia D ^a,c   Tepedino, Vincent J ^b,c  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet breadth; Emphorini; Host choice; Oligolecty; Pollination character evolution

Indexed keywords

BEE; EVOLUTION; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; POLLEN;

NORTH AMERICA;

APOIDEA; DIADASIA; EMPHORINI; HYMENOPTERA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA; MALVACEAE;

EID: 28944442062     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00544.x     Document Type: Article

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