Determinants of parasitoid communities of willow-galling sawflies: Habitat overrides physiology, host plant and space

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 5059-5074

  Nyman, Tommi ^a,b   Leppänen, Sanna A ^a   Várkonyi, Gergely ^c   Shaw, Mark R ^d   Koivisto, Reijo ^a   Barstad, Trond Elling ^e   Vikberg, Veli ^f   Roininen, Heikki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^f NONE   (Finland)

Author keywords

community barcoding; enemy free space; speciation; tritrophic food webs; vertical diversification effects

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT TUMOR; WASP; WILLOW;

ANIMALS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HYMENOPTERA; LARVA; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITES; PHYLOGENY; PLANT TUMORS; SALIX; WASPS;

EID: 84942627022     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13369     Document Type: Article

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