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Evolutionary assembly of the milkweed fauna: cytochrome oxidase I and the age of Tetraopes beetles.
Molecular phylogenetics and evolution - 1 Mar 2001
Farrell B D
Abstract excerpt
The insects that feed on the related plant families Apocynaceae and Asclepiadaceae (here collectively termed "milkweeds") comprise a "component community" of highly specialized, distinctive lineages of species that frequently sequester toxic cardiac glycosides from their host plants for defense a...
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