ArticleEcology and evolution2020
Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2020. 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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- Additive and interactive effects of anthropogenic stressors on an insect herbivore.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- A continental-scale survey of Wolbachia infections in blue butterflies reveals evidence of interspecific transfer and invasion dynamics.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Additive genetic effects in interacting species jointly determine the outcome of caterpillar herbivory.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Opposing Effects ofMetabolites · 2021Article
- Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion.Science advances · 2020Article
- Caterpillars on a phytochemical landscape: The case of alfalfa and the Melissa blue butterfly.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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13 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Modern metabolomic approaches that generate more comprehensive phytochemical profiles than were previously available are providing new opportunities for understanding plant-animal interactions. Specifically, we can characterize the phytochemical landscape by asking how a larger number of individual compounds affect herbivores and how compounds covary among plants. Here we use the recent colonization of alfalfa (
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