Fossil-calibrated molecular phylogenies reveal that leaf-mining moths radiated millions of years after their host plants

Journal of Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1314-1326

  Lopez Vaamonde, C ^a   Wikstrom N ^b   Labandeira, C ^c,d   Godfray, H C J ^e   Goodman, S J ^f   Cook, J M ^e  

^a Inst Natl de la Rech Agronom   (France)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^d Bldg 142   (United States)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Cospeciation; Divergence times; Evolutionary rates; Fossil record; Host shift; Leaf mining moth; Penalized likelihood; Plant insect interactions; Sequential evolution

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COEVOLUTION; DATING METHOD; DIVERGENCE; DNA; FOSSIL RECORD; HOST PLANT; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MOTH; PHYLOGENY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; TAXONOMY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLASSIFICATION; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOTH; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; CALIBRATION; FOSSILS; MOTHS; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; UNCERTAINTY;

INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYLLONORYCTER;

EID: 33745183132     PISSN: 1010061X     EISSN: 14209101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1420-9101.2005.01070.x     Document Type: Article

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