The Many Dimensions of Diet Breadth: Phytochemical, Genetic, Behavioral, and Physiological Perspectives on the Interaction between a Native Herbivore and an Exotic Host.

From the perspective of an herbivorous insect, conspecific host plants are not identical, and intraspecific variation in host nutritional quality or defensive capacity might mediate spatially variable outcomes in plant-insect interactions. Here we explore this possibility in the context of an ongoin...

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Main Authors: Joshua G Harrison, Zachariah Gompert, James A Fordyce, C Alex Buerkle, Rachel Grinstead, Joshua P Jahner, Scott Mikel, Christopher C Nice, Aldrin Santamaria, Matthew L Forister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4737494?pdf=render