ArticleScience advances2020
Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion.
Article in Science advances, 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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8 citing papers in PubMed.
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- High Quality Diet Enhances Immune Response and Affects Gene Expression During Viral Infection in an Insect Herbivore.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Antiteuchus tripterus (Fabricius, 1787) (Heteroptera: Pentatomidae): First Record of This Native Stink Bug Damaging the Threatened Araucaria angustifolia in Brazil.Neotropical entomology · 2024Article
- 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
- Use of an exotic host plant shifts immunity, chemical defense, and viral burden in wild populations of a specialist insect herbivore.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Microclimate and resource quality determine resource use in a range-expanding herbivore.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Opposing Effects ofMetabolites · 2021Article
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Abstract
Specialized plant-insect interactions are a defining feature of life on earth, yet we are only beginning to understand the factors that set limits on host ranges in herbivorous insects. To better understand the recent adoption of alfalfa as a host plant by the Melissa blue butterfly, we quantified arthropod assemblages and plant metabolites across a wide geographic region while controlling for climate and dispersal inferred from population genomic variation. The presence of the butterfly is successfully predicted by direct and indirect effects of plant traits and interactions with other species. Results are consistent with the predictions of a theoretical model of parasite host range in which specialization is an epiphenomenon of the many barriers to be overcome rather than a consequence of trade-offs in developmental physiology.
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