Mutualism favours higher host specificity than does antagonism in plant-herbivore interaction

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1695, 2010, Pages 2765-2774

  Kawakita, Atsushi ^a   Okamoto, Tomoko ^a   Goto, Ryutaro ^a   Kato, Makoto ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Caloptilia; Cuphodes; Diphtheroptila; Gracillariidae; Phyllanthaceae

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; COEVOLUTION; DICOTYLEDON; DIET; ENDOPHYTE; HOST SPECIFICITY; LARVA; LEAFMINER; MOTH; MUTUALISM; PARASITE; PLANT-HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SEED; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); WASP;

AGAONIDAE; CALOPTILIA; EPICEPHALA; GLOCHIDION; GRACILLARIIDAE; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; PHYLLANTHACEAE; PRODOXIDAE;

EID: 77956930224     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0355     Document Type: Conference Paper

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