Discrimination of grasshopper (Orthoptera: Acrididae) diet and niche overlap using next-generation sequencing of gut contents

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 15, 2015, Pages 3046-3055

  McClenaghan, Beverly ^a   Gibson, Joel F ^a   Shokralla, Shadi ^a   Hajibabaei, Mehrdad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diet analysis; Illumina MiSeq; Niche overlap; Plants; rbcLa

Indexed keywords

ACRIDIDAE; CHORTOPHAGA VIRIDIFASCIATA; DISSOSTEIRA CAROLINA; MELANOPLUS BIVITTATUS; MELANOPLUS FEMURRUBRUM; ORTHOPTERA; OTUS; POACEAE;

EID: 84938751620     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1585     Document Type: Article

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