Specialization, speciation, and radiation : the evolutionary biology of herbivorous insects / / edited by Kelley Jean Tilmon.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Tilmon, Kelley Jean.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xv, 341 p. :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

Chemical mediation of host-plant specialization : the papilionid paradigm / May R. Berenbaum and Paul P. Feeny -- Evolution of preference and performance relationships / Timothy P. Craig and Joanne K. Itami -- Evolutionary ecology of polyphagy / Michael S. Singer -- Phenotypic plasticity / Kailen A. Mooney and Anurag A. Agrawal -- Selection and genetic architecture of plant resistance / Mary Ellen Czesak, Robert S. Fritz, and Cris Hochwender -- Introgression and parapatric speciation in a hybrid zone / J. Mark Scriber, Gabe J. Ording, and Rodrigo J. Mercader -- Host shifts, the evolution of communication, and speciation in the Enchenopa binotata species complex of treehoppers / Reginald B. Cocroft, Rafael L. Rodriguez, and Randy E. Hunt -- Host fruit-odor discrimination and sympatric host-race formation / Jeffrey L. Feder and Andrew A. Forbes -- Comparative analyses of ecological speciation / Daniel J. Funk and Patrik Nosil -- Sympatric speciation : norm or exception? / Douglas J. Futuyma --

Host-plant use, diversification, and coevolution : insights from remote Oceanic islands / George K. Roderick and Diana M. Percy -- Selection by pollinators and herbivores on attraction and defense / Lynn S. Adler -- Adaptive radiation : phylogenetic constraints and ecological consequences / Peter W. Price -- Sequential radiation through host-race formation : herbivore diversity leads to diversity in natural enemies / Warren G. Abrahamson and Catherine P. Blair -- The oscillation hypothesis of host-plant range and speciation / Niklas Janz and Soren Nylin -- Coevolution, cryptic speciation, and the persistence of interactions / John N. Thompson -- Cophylogeny of figs, pollinators, gallers, and parasitoids / Summer I. Silvieus, Wendy L. Clement, and George D. Weiblen -- The phylogenetic dimension of insect-plant interactions : a review of recent evidence / Isaac S. Winkler and Charles Mitter -- Evolution of insect resistance to transgenic plants / Bruce E. Tabashnik and Yves Carriere -- Exotic plants and enemy resistance / John L. Maron and Montserrat Vila -- Life-history evolution in native and introduced populations / Robert F. Denno ... [et al.] -- Rapid natural and anthropogenic diet evolution : three examples from checkerspot butterflies / Michael C. Singer ... [et al.] -- Conservation of coevolved insect herbivores and plants / Carol L. Boggs and Paul R. Ehrlich.