Fifty years after Ehrlich and Raven, is there support for plant-insect coevolution as a major driver of species diversification?

Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata

Volumn 157, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 98-112

  Suchan, Tomasz ^a,b   Alvarez, Nadir ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

'coevolutionary interlude'; Codivergence; Coevolutionary diversification; Comparative phylogeny; Diversifying coevolution; Escalation; Escape and radiate; Insect counter defenses; Phylogenetic tracking; Plant defenses; Sequential evolution

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIVERGENCE; PHYLOGENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; TRACKING;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 84941552553     PISSN: 00138703     EISSN: 15707458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eea.12348     Document Type: Article

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