The Genetic Architecture Of A Complex Ecological Trait: Host Plant Use In The Specialist Moth, Heliothis Subflexa

Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3336-3351

  Oppenheim, Sara J ^a   Gould, Fred ^a   Hopper, Keith R ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b USDA ARS   (United States)

Author keywords

Complex phenotypes; Ecological genetics; Ecologically adaptive traits; Herbivore host range; Plant insect interactions

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CHROMOSOME; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; GENETIC STRUCTURE; HOST PLANT; MOTH; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MALE; MOTH; PHENOTYPE; PHYSALIS; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

AMPLIFIED FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM ANALYSIS; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD CHAIN; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKERS; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LARVA; MALE; MOTHS; PHENOTYPE; PHYSALIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

HELIOTHIS SUBFLEXA; HEXAPODA; LEPIDOPTERA; NOCTUIDAE; PHYSALIS;

EID: 84868155196     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01712.x     Document Type: Article

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