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Hybridization and adaptation to introduced balloon vines in an Australian soapberry bug.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2013
Andres J A, Thampy P R, Mathieson M T, Loye J, Zalucki M P, Dingle H, Carroll S P
Abstract excerpt
Contemporary adaptation of plant feeding insects to introduced hosts provides clear cases of ecologically based population divergence. In most cases the mechanisms permitting rapid differentiation are not well known. Here we study morphological and genetic variation associated with recent shifts by the Australian soapberry bug Leptocoris tagalicus onto two naturalized Neotropical balloon vines, Cardiospermum...
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