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Nonadaptive radiation: Pervasive diet specialization by drift in scale insects?

Evolution; international journal of organic evolution - 1 Oct 2016

Hardy Nate B, Peterson Daniel A, Normark Benjamin B

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At least half of metazoan species are herbivorous insects. Why are they so diverse? Most herbivorous insects feed on few plant species, and adaptive host specialization is often invoked to explain their diversification. Nevertheless, it is possible that the narrow host ranges of many herbivorous insects are nonadaptive. Here, we test predictions of this hypothesis with comparative phylogenetic analyses of scale...

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PMID: 27507211
DOI: 10.1111/evo.13036

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