Lethal Interactions Between Parasites and Prey Increase Niche Diversity in a Tropical Community
dc.contributor.author | Condon, Marty | |
dc.contributor.author | Scheffer, Sonja | |
dc.contributor.author | Adams, Dean | |
dc.contributor.author | Lewis, Matthew | |
dc.contributor.author | Wharton, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Adams, Dean | |
dc.contributor.author | Forbes, Andrew | |
dc.contributor.department | Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology | |
dc.date | 2018-02-17T10:25:38.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-30T02:16:29Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-30T02:16:29Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-03-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Ecological specialization should minimize niche overlap, yet herbivorous neotropical flies (<em>Blepharoneura</em>) and their lethal parasitic wasps (parasitoids) exhibit both extreme specialization and apparent niche overlap in host plants. From just two plant species at one site in Peru, we collected 3636 flowers yielding 1478 fly pupae representing 14 <em>Blepharoneura</em> fly species, 18 parasitoid species (14 <em>Bellopius</em> species), and parasitoid-host associations, all discovered through analysis of molecular data. Multiple sympatric species specialize on the same sex flowers of the same fly host-plant species—which suggests extreme niche overlap; however, niche partitioning was exposed by interactions between wasps and flies. Most <em>Bellopius</em> species emerged as adults from only one fly species, yet evidence from pupae (preadult emergence samples) show that most <em>Bellopius</em>also attacked additional fly species but never emerged as adults from those flies.</p> | |
dc.description.comments | <p>This article is from <em>Science</em> 343 (2014): 1240, doi:<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1245007" target="_blank">10.1126/science.1245007</a>.</p> | |
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dc.identifier | archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/eeob_ag_pubs/123/ | |
dc.identifier.articleid | 1113 | |
dc.identifier.contextkey | 7996162 | |
dc.identifier.s3bucket | isulib-bepress-aws-west | |
dc.identifier.submissionpath | eeob_ag_pubs/123 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/22985 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.source.bitstream | archive/lib.dr.iastate.edu/eeob_ag_pubs/123/2014_Adams_LethalInteractions.pdf|||Fri Jan 14 19:17:48 UTC 2022 | |
dc.source.uri | 10.1126/science.1245007 | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | |
dc.title | Lethal Interactions Between Parasites and Prey Increase Niche Diversity in a Tropical Community | |
dc.type | article | |
dc.type.genre | article | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
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