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Plastic Variation in the Phyletic Lineages of Cactophilic Drosophila meridionalis and Relation to Hosts as Potential for Diversification.
Neotropical entomology - 1 Aug 2021
Barrios-Leal Dora Yovana, Mateus Rogério P, Santos Cintia Graziela, Manfrin Maura Helena
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The insect/plant interaction is known to be a trigger for diversification and even speciation. Experimental analyses on fitness traits and phenotypic variation using alternative host sites have been performed to understand the process of diversification relative to insect/plant interactions. For cactophilic species of Drosophila, the speciation process is considered an adaptive radiation in response to the...
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