Wide host ranges of herbivorous beetles? Insights from DNA bar coding.

There are very few studies that have investigated host-specificity among tropical herbivorous insects. Indeed, most of the trophic interactions of herbivorous insects in Southeast Asian tropical rainforests remain unknown, and whether polyphagous feeding is common in the herbivores of this ecosystem...

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Main Authors: Keiko Kishimoto-Yamada, Koichi Kamiya, Paulus Meleng, Bibian Diway, Het Kaliang, Lucy Chong, Takao Itioka, Shoko Sakai, Motomi Ito
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3779210?pdf=render