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| Title |
How common is ecological speciation in plant-feeding insects? A 'Higher' Nematinae perspective
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, September 2010
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-10-266 |
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| Authors |
Tommi Nyman, Veli Vikberg, David R Smith, Jean-Luc Boevé |
| Abstract |
Ecological speciation is a process in which a transiently resource-polymorphic species divides into two specialized sister lineages as a result of divergent selection pressures caused by the use of multiple niches or environments. Ecology-based speciation has been studied intensively in plant-feeding insects, in which both sympatric and allopatric shifts onto novel host plants could speed up diversification. However, while numerous examples of species pairs likely to have originated by resource shifts have been found, the overall importance of ecological speciation in relation to other, non-ecological speciation modes remains unknown. Here, we apply phylogenetic information on sawflies belonging to the 'Higher' Nematinae (Hymenoptera: Tenthredinidae) to infer the frequency of niche shifts in relation to speciation events. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 161 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 2% |
| France | 2 | 1% |
| Germany | 2 | 1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| China | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 3 | 2% |
| Unknown | 144 | 89% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 42 | 26% |
| Researcher | 36 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 12 | 7% |
| Other | 26 | 16% |
| Unknown | 17 | 11% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 115 | 71% |
| Environmental Science | 11 | 7% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 4% |
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 3 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 4 | 2% |
| Unknown | 21 | 13% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 March 2012.
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