Ecological interactions drive evolutionary loss of traits

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1071-1082

  Ellers, Jacintha ^a   Toby Kiers, E ^a   Currie, Cameron R ^b   Mcdonald, Bradon R ^b   Visser, Bertanne ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Comparative genomics; Compensated trait loss; Dietary composition; Gene loss; Mutualism; Parasitism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; NOTE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84865865831     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2012.01830.x     Document Type: Note

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