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Molecular characterization of trophic ecology within an island radiation of insect herbivores (Curculionidae: Entiminae: Cratopus).
Molecular ecology - 1 Nov 2013
Kitson James J N, Warren Ben H, Florens F B Vincent, Baider Claudia, Strasberg Dominique, Emerson Brent C
Abstract excerpt
The phytophagous beetle family Curculionidae is the most species-rich insect family known, with much of this diversity having been attributed to both co-evolution with food plants and host shifts at key points within the early evolutionary history of the group. Less well understood is the extent to which patterns of host use vary within or among related species, largely because of the technical difficulties...
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