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ArticleBiology letters2018

Resource dispersion influences dispersal evolution of highly insulated insect communities.

Vignesh Venkateswaran, Anusha L K Kumble, Renee M Borges

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Article in Biology letters, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Vignesh VenkateswaranCentre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Anusha L K KumbleCentre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
Renee M BorgesCentre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India renee@iisc.ac.in.ORCID 0000-0001-8586-7380
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Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Communities in which species are obligately associated with a single host are ideal to test adaptive responses of community traits to host-imposed selection because such communities are often highly insulated. Fig species provide oviposition resources to co-evolved fig-wasp communities. Dispersing fig-wasp communities move from one host plant to another for oviposition. We compared the spatial dispersion of two fig species and the dispersal capacities of their multitrophic wasp communities. Dispersal capacities were assessed by measuring vital dispersal correlates, namely tethered flight durations, somatic lipid contents and resting metabolic rates. We suggest that dispersal-trait distributions of congeneric wasp species across the communities are an adaptive response to host plant dispersion. Larger dispersal capacities of the entire multitrophic community are related to more widely dispersed resources. Our results provide evidence and a novel perspective for understanding the potential role of adaptation in whole-community dispersal-trait distributions.

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Animal DistributionPlant DispersalAdaptation, BiologicalAnimalsBiological CoevolutionFemaleFicusIndiaOvipositionSpecies SpecificityWaspsadaptationcommunity traitdispersalfig waspsresource dispersion

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PMID30381449
PMCPMC6227868
OpenAlexW2899432966

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