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SUBMITTER: Mlynarek JJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9904940 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mlynarek Julia J JJ Cull Chloe C Parachnowitsch Amy L AL Vickruck Jess L JL Heard Stephen B SB
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20230208 1992
How do researchers choose their study species? Some choices are based on ecological or economic importance, some on ease of study, some on tradition-but could the name of a species influence researcher decisions? We asked whether phytophagous arthropod species named after their host plants were more likely to be assayed for host-associated genetic differentiation (or 'HAD'; the evolution of cryptic, genetically isolated host specialists within an apparently more generalist lineage). We chose 30 ...[more]