Fossil-calibrated molecular phylogenies reveal that leaf-mining moths radiated millions of years after their host plants.

Volume: 19, Issue: 4, Pages: 1314 - 1326
Published: Jul 1, 2006
Abstract
Coevolution has been hypothesized as the main driving force for the remarkable diversity of insect-plant associations. Dating of insect and plant phylogenies allows us to test coevolutionary hypotheses and distinguish between the contemporaneous radiation of interacting lineages vs. insect 'host tracking' of previously diversified plants. Here, we used nuclear DNA to reconstruct a molecular phylogeny for 100 species of Phyllonorycter leaf-mining...
Paper Details
Title
Fossil-calibrated molecular phylogenies reveal that leaf-mining moths radiated millions of years after their host plants.
Published Date
Jul 1, 2006
Volume
19
Issue
4
Pages
1314 - 1326
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