Island phytophagy: explaining the remarkable diversity of plant-feeding insects.

Proceedings. Biological Sciences
Jeffrey B Joy, Bernard J Crespi

Abstract

Plant-feeding insects have undergone unparalleled diversification among different plant taxa, yet explanations for variation in their diversity lack a quantitative, predictive framework. Island biogeographic theory has been applied to spatially discrete habitats but not to habitats, such as host plants, separated by genetic distance. We show that relationships between the diversity of gall-inducing flies and their host plants meet several fundamental predictions from island biogeographic theory. First, plant-taxon genetic distinctiveness, an integrator for long-term evolutionary history of plant lineages, is a significant predictor of variance in the diversity of gall-inducing flies among host-plant taxa. Second, range size and structural complexity also explain significant proportions of the variance in diversity of gall-inducing flies among different host-plant taxa. Third, as with other island systems, plant-lineage age does not predict species diversity. Island biogeographic theory, applied to habitats defined by genetic distance, provides a novel, comprehensive framework for analysing and explaining the diversity of plant-feeding insects and other host-specific taxa.

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Feb 8, 2013·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Jeffrey B Joy
Jun 21, 2013·Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society·Tsukushi KamiyaRobert Poulin
Aug 23, 2016·Ecology and Evolution·Ryosuke Nakadai, Atsushi Kawakita
Nov 7, 2014·PLoS Pathogens·Ben LongdonFrancis M Jiggins
Aug 19, 2016·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Joaquín CalatayudJoaquín Hortal
Nov 10, 2017·Proceedings. Biological Sciences·Simon T SegarVojtech Novotny
Mar 19, 2021·Ecology and Evolution·Carlo L SeifertVojtěch Novotný
Mar 23, 2021·Journal of Evolutionary Biology·Vincent MontoyaJeffrey B Joy

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