Parallel evolution in sympatric, hybridizing species: Performance of Colias butterflies on their introduced host plants

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-99

  Porter, Adam H ^a   Levin, Elena J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alfalfa; Clover; Host range expansion; Introgression; Larval ecology; Lepidoptera; Pieridae; Trade off

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ALFALFA; BUTTERFLY; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GROWTH RATE; HOST PLANT; HOST RANGE; HYBRID; INTROGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POLYMORPHISM; RANGE EXPANSION; SURVIVORSHIP; SYMPATRY;

COLIAS; COLIAS EURYTHEME; COLIAS PHILODICE; LEPIDOPTERA; MEDICAGO SATIVA; PAPILIONOIDEA; PIERIDAE; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 34250683566     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1570-7458.2007.00553.x     Document Type: Article

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