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Diversity begets diversity: host expansions and the diversification of plant-feeding insects

BACKGROUND: Plant-feeding insects make up a large part of earth's total biodiversity. While it has been shown that herbivory has repeatedly led to increased diversification rates in insects, there has been no compelling explanation for how plant-feeding has promoted speciation rates. There is a...

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Autores principales: Janz, Niklas, Nylin, Sören, Wahlberg, Niklas
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1382262/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16420707
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-6-4