Predicting patch occupancy reveals the complexity of host range expansion
| Autor: | Matthew L. Forister, Zachariah Gompert, Craig D. Dodson, Zachary H. Marion, Casey S. Philbin, Glen W. Forister, Sarah L. Lebeis, C. A. Buerkle, James A. Fordyce, Lauren K. Lucas, Chris C. Nice |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Occupancy Population Epiphenomenon 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences 03 medical and health sciences Specialization (functional) education Research Articles 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study Multidisciplinary biology Ecology Host (biology) fungi food and beverages SciAdv r-articles biology.organism_classification Evolutionary biology Butterfly Biological dispersal Arthropod Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Science Advances |
| ISSN: | 2375-2548 |
| Popis: | Effects of plant variation and interacting species explain the colonization of a novel host plant by the Melissa blue butterfly. 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. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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