Host shifts and evolutionary radiations of butterflies

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 277, Issue 1701, 2010, Pages 3735-3743

  Fordyce, James A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive radiation; Diversification; Escape and radiate; Lepidoptera

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BUTTERFLY; COEVOLUTION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PLANT; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

LEPIDOPTERA; PAPILIONOIDEA;

EID: 78650070285     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.0211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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