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Flexible Host Choice and Common Host Switches in the Evolution of Generalist and Specialist Cuckoo Bees (Anthophila: Sphecodes)

Specialization makes resource use more efficient and should therefore be a common process in animal evolution. However, this process is not as universal in nature as one might expect. Our study shows that Sphecodes (Halictidae) cuckoo bees frequently change their host over the course of their evolut...

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Autores principales: Habermannová, Jana, Bogusch, Petr, Straka, Jakub
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3656848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691244
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064537