Adaptive evolution of cryptic coloration: The shape of host plants and dorsal stripes in Timema walking-sticks

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-5

  Sandoval, Cristina P ^a   Crespi, Bernard J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Crypsis; Host specialization; Phylogeny; Timematidae

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADAPTIVE RADIATION; COLOR; EVOLUTION; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; INORGANIC CARBON; INSECT; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY;

PHASMATODEA; TIMEMA; TIMEMATIDAE;

EID: 43049118604     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00941.x     Document Type: Article

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