Testing for coevolutionary diversification: linking pattern with process

DM Althoff, KA Segraves, MTJ Johnson - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2014‏ - cell.com
Coevolutionary diversification is cited as a major mechanism driving the evolution of
diversity, particularly in plants and insects. However, tests of coevolutionary diversification …

Phytochemicals as mediators for host range expansion of a native invasive forest insect herbivore

N Erbilgin - New Phytologist, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Mountain pine beetle (MPB) has recently invaded jack pine forests in western Canada. This
invasion signifies a climate change‐induced range expansion by a native insect. The …

Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks

PR Guimaraes Jr, MM Pires, P Jordano, J Bascompte… - Nature, 2017‏ - nature.com
Ecological interactions have been acknowledged to play a key role in sha** biodiversity,.
Yet a major challenge for evolutionary biology is to understand the role of ecological …

Real-time divergent evolution in plants driven by pollinators

DDL Gervasi, FP Schiestl - Nature communications, 2017‏ - nature.com
Pollinator-driven diversification is thought to be a major source of floral variation in plants.
Our knowledge of this process is, however, limited to indirect assessments of evolutionary …

The evolution of floral sonication, a pollen foraging behavior used by bees (Anthophila)

S Cardinal, SL Buchmann, AL Russell - Evolution, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Over 22,000 species of biotically pollinated flowering plants, including some major
agricultural crops, depend primarily on bees capable of floral sonication for pollination …

Phylogenetically diverse diets favor more complex venoms in North American pitvipers

ML Holding, JL Strickland, RM Rautsaw… - Proceedings of the …, 2021‏ - pnas.org
The role of natural selection in the evolution of trait complexity can be characterized by
testing hypothesized links between complex forms and their functions across species …

Extreme diversification of floral volatiles within and among species of Lithophragma (Saxifragaceae)

M Friberg, C Schwind, PR Guimarães Jr… - Proceedings of the …, 2019‏ - pnas.org
A major challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how complex traits of multiple
functions have diversified and codiversified across interacting lineages and geographic …

Coevolution and the diversification of life

DH Hembry, JB Yoder… - The American …, 2014‏ - journals.uchicago.edu
Coevolution, reciprocal adaptation between two or more taxa, is commonly invoked as a
primary mechanism responsible for generating much of Earth's biodiversity. This …

Origins of plant diversity in the California Floristic Province

BG Baldwin - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Recent biogeographic and evolutionary studies have led to improved understanding of the
origins of exceptionally high plant diversity in the California Floristic Province (CA-FP) …

Measuring coevolutionary dynamics in species-rich communities

AR Hall, B Ashby, J Bascompte, KC King - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020‏ - cell.com
Identifying different types of coevolutionary dynamics is important for understanding
biodiversity and infectious disease. Past work has often focused on pairs of interacting …