Does a shift in host plants trigger speciation in the Alpine leaf beetle Oreina speciosissima (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae)?
BACKGROUND:Within the Coleoptera, the largest order in the animal kingdom, the exclusively herbivorous Chrysomelidae are recognized as one of the most species rich beetle families. The evolutionary processes that have fueled radiation into the more than thirty-five thousand currently recognized leaf...
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BioMed Central
2011
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| Online Access: | Borer et al. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:310 http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/11/310 http://hdl.handle.net/10150/610380 http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/610380 |