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Micro- and Macroevolutionary Trade-Offs in Plant-Feeding Insects


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dc.contributorDaniel Peterson, dapeters@cns.umass.eduen_US
dc.creatorPeterson, Daniel
dc.creatorHardy, Nate
dc.creatorNormark, Benjamin
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-17T19:56:02Z
dc.date.available2023-05-17T19:56:02Z
dc.date.created2016
dc.identifier10.1086/688764en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/688764en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://aurora.auburn.edu/handle/11200/50511
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.35099/aurora-579
dc.description.abstractA long-standing hypothesis asserts that plant-feeding insects specialize on particular host plants because of negative interactions (trade-offs) between adaptations to alternative hosts, yet empirical evidence for such trade-offs is scarce. Most studies have looked for microevolutionary performance trade-offs within insect species, but host use could also be constrained by macroevolutionary trade-offs caused by epistasis and historical contingency. Here we used a phylogenetic approach to estimate the micro- and macroevolutionary correlations between use of alternative host-plant taxa within two major orders of plant-feeding insects: Lepidoptera (caterpillars) and Hemiptera (true bugs). Across 1,604 caterpillar species, we found both positive and negative pairwise correlations between use of 11 host-plant orders, with overall network patterns suggesting that different host-use constraints act over micro- and macroevolutionary timescales. In contrast, host-use patterns of 955 true bug species revealed uniformly positive correlations between use of the same 11 host plant orders over both timescales. The lack of consistent patterns across timescales and insect orders indicates that host-use trade-offs are historically contingent rather than universal constraints. Moreover, we observed few negative correlations overall despite the wide taxonomic and ecological diversity of the focal host-plant orders, suggesting that positive interactions between host-use adaptations, not trade-offs, dominate the long-term evolution of host use in plant-feeding insects.en_US
dc.formatPDFen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Chicago Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofAmerican Naturalisten_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries0003-0147en_US
dc.rights©The Authors 2016. ©University of Chicago Press 2016. This is this the version of record published by the University of Chicago Press. It is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. Item should be cited as: Peterson, Daniel A., Nate B. Hardy, and Benjamin B. Normark. "Micro-and macroevolutionary trade-offs in plant-feeding insects." The American Naturalist 188, no. 6 (2016): 640-650.en_US
dc.subjectecological specializationen_US
dc.subjectherbivoryen_US
dc.subjecthost rangeen_US
dc.subjectpolyphagyen_US
dc.titleMicro- and Macroevolutionary Trade-Offs in Plant-Feeding Insectsen_US
dc.typeTexten_US
dc.type.genreJournal Article, Academic Journalen_US
dc.citation.volume188en_US
dc.citation.issue6en_US
dc.citation.spage640en_US
dc.citation.epage650en_US
dc.description.statusPublisheden_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-6267-9552en_US
dc.creator.orcid0000-0002-3024-3068en_US

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