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Generalism in Nature…The Great Misnomer: Aphids and Wasp Parasitoids as Examples.
Article in Insects, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Challenges in Aphid Pest Management Including Global Case Studies and Prospects.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Courtship and Mating Behavior of the Aphid ParasitoidInsects · 2026Article
- Patterns and Mechanisms of Niche Partitioning Between Related Parasitoids (Hymenoptera) Sharing the Same Host Species.Insects · 2025Review
- The most polyphagous insect herbivore? Host plant associations of the Meadow spittlebug, Philaenus spumarius (L.).PloS one · 2023Article
- Complex life histories predispose aphids to recent abundance declines.Global change biology · 2021Article
- The molecular mechanisms that determine different degrees of polyphagy in theEvolutionary applications · 2021Article
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- Comparative Analysis ofInsects · 2019Article
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Abstract
In the present article we discuss why, in our view, the term 'generalism' to define the dietary breadth of a species is a misnomer and should be revised by entomologists/ecologists with the more exact title relating to the animal in question's level of phagy-
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