Host plant specialization and species turnover of caterpillars among hosts in the brazilian cerrado

Biotropica

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 467-472

  Morais, Helena C ^a   Sujii, Edison R ^b   Almeida Neto, Mario ^a   De Carvalho, Plauto S ^a   Hay, John D ^a   Diniz, Ivone R ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^b EMBRAPA RECURSOS GENÉTICOS E BIOTECNOLOGIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Additive partitioning of diversity; Genetic distance; Lepidoptera; Plant taxonomic distance

Indexed keywords

CATERPILLAR; CERRADO; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HERBIVORE; HOST PLANT; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIALIST; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAXONOMY;

BRAZIL;

LEPIDOPTERA;

EID: 79960124475     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2010.00736.x     Document Type: Article

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