ReviewGenetica2011
Niche explosion.
Review in Genetica, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Biological lessons for strategic resistance management.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Genetically Depauperate and Still Successful: Few Multilocus Genotypes of the Introduced Parthenogenetic WeevilInsects · 2023Article
- The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.).PloS one · 2023Article
- Four new species of Aspidiotini (Hemiptera, Diaspididae, Aspidiotinae) from Panama, with a key to Panamanian species.ZooKeys · 2021Article
- Host-specific gene expression as a tool for introduction success in Naupactus parthenogenetic weevils.PloS one · 2021Article
- Nonadaptive host-use specificity in tropical armored scale insects.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
- Endomicrobial Community Profiles of Two Different Mealybugs:Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2020Article
- The Evolutionary and Molecular Features of Broad Host-Range Necrotrophy in Plant Pathogenic Fungi.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Review
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- No signal of deleterious mutation accumulation in conserved gene sequences of extant asexual hexapods.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Ellagitannins from the Onagraceae Decrease the Performance of Generalist and Specialist Herbivores.Journal of chemical ecology · 2019Article
- Does a plant-eating insect's diet govern the evolution of insecticide resistance? Comparative tests of the pre-adaptation hypothesis.Evolutionary applications · 2018Article
- Polyphagy by omnivory: scavenging improves performance of a polyphagous caterpillar on marginal hosts.Oecologia · 2018Article
- Evolution and comparative ecology of parthenogenesis in haplodiploid arthropods.Evolution letters · 2017Article
- Effective purifying selection in ancient asexual oribatid mites.Nature communications · 2017Article
- Scale insect host ranges are broader in the tropics.Biology letters · 2015Article
- Ecological effects of aphid abundance, genotypic variation, and contemporary evolution on plants.Oecologia · 2015Article
- Transcriptome Analysis of Kiwifruit (Actinidia chinensis) Bark in Response to Armoured Scale Insect (Hemiberlesia lataniae) Feeding.PloS one · 2015Article
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Abstract
The following syndrome of features occurs in several groups of phytophagous insects: (1) wingless females, (2) dispersal by larvae, (3) woody hosts, (4) extreme polyphagy, (5) high abundance, resulting in status as economic pests, (6) invasiveness, and (7) obligate parthenogenesis in some populations. If extreme polyphagy is defined as feeding on 20 or more families of hostplants, this syndrome is found convergently in several species of bagworm moths, tussock moths, root weevils, and 5 families of scale insects. We hypothesize that extreme polyphagy in these taxa results from "niche explosion", a positive feedback loop connecting large population size to broad host range. The niche explosion has a demographic component (sometimes called the "amplification effect" in studies of pathogens) as well as a population-genetic component, due mainly to the increased effectiveness of natural selection in larger populations. The frequent origins of parthenogenesis in extreme polyphages are, in our interpretation, a consequence of this increased effectiveness of natural selection and consequent reduced importance of sexuality. The niche explosion hypothesis makes detailed predictions about the comparative genomics and population genetics of extreme polyphages and related specialists. It has a number of potentially important implications, including an explanation for the lack of observed trade-offs between generalists and specialists, a re-interpretation of the ecological correlates of parthenogenesis, and a general expectation that Malthusian population explosions may be amplified by Darwinian effects.
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