Variation among individual butterflies along a generalist-specialist axis: No support for the 'neural constraint' hypothesis

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 257-261

  Wee, Brian ^a   Singer, Michael C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet breadth; Euphydryas; Host specialisation; Neural constraints; Oviposition preference; Specificity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BUTTERFLY; HOST PLANT; HOST PREFERENCE; HOST SPECIFICITY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; OVIPOSITION;

COLLINSIA; COLLINSIA TORREYI; EUPHYDRYAS; EUPHYDRYAS EDITHA; HEXAPODA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PEDICULARIS; PEDICULARIS SEMIBARBATA;

EID: 34249793213     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2006.00792.x     Document Type: Article

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