Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation the Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects.
Title:
Specialization, Speciation, and Radiation the Evolutionary Biology of Herbivorous Insects.
Author:
Tilmon, Kelley.
ISBN:
9780520933828
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Publication Information:
Berkeley : University of California Press, 2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (360 p.)
Contents:
Cover; CONTENTS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; PART I: Evolution of Populations and Species; 1 Chemical Mediation of Host-Plant Specialization: The Papilionid Paradigm; 2 Evolution of Preference and Performance Relationships; 3 Evolutionary Ecology of Polyphagy; 4 Phenotypic Plasticity; 5 Selection and Genetic Architecture of Plant Resistance; 6 Introgression and Parapatric Speciation in a Hybrid Zone; 7 Host Shifts, the Evolution of Communication, and Speciation in the Enchenopa binotata Species Complex of Treehoppers; 8 Host Fruit-Odor Discrimination and Sympatric Host-Race Formation.
9 Comparative Analyses of Ecological Speciation10 Sympatric Speciation: Norm or Exception?; PART II: Co- and Macroevolutionary Radiation; 11 Host-Plant Use, Diversification, and Coevolution: Insights from Remote Oceanic Islands; 12 Selection by Pollinators and Herbivores on Attraction and Defense; 13 Adaptive Radiation: Phylogenetic Constraints and Ecological Consequences; 14 Sequential Radiation through Host-Race Formation.
Abstract:
The intimate associations between plants and the insects that eat them have helped define and shape both groups for millions of years. This pioneering volume is a comprehensive, up-to-date treatment of the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects, including their relationships with host plants and natural enemies. Chapters focus on the dynamic relationships between insects and plants from the standpoint of evolutionary change at different levels of biological organizationindividuals, populations, species, and clades. Written by prominent evolutionary biologists, entomologists, and ecologis.
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