Sequential speciation and the diversity of parasitic insects

Ecological Entomology

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages 67-76

  Feder, Jeffrey L ^a   Forbes, Andrew A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diachasma alloeum; Insect diversity; Niche creation; Rhagoletis pomonella; Sympatric speciation

Indexed keywords

FLY; HOST-PARASITOID INTERACTION; NEW SPECIES; NICHE; PALEONTOLOGY; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMPATRY; WASP;

BRACONIDAE; DIACHASMA ALLOEUM; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; RHAGOLETIS POMONELLA; STREPSIPTERA; TEPHRITIDAE;

EID: 74549118885     PISSN: 03076946     EISSN: 13652311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2311.2009.01144.x     Document Type: Article

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