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Open AccessAdaptive divergence and post-zygotic barriers to gene flow between sympatric populations of a herbivorous mite
Plant-herbivore interactions promote the generation and maintenance of both plant and herbivore biodiversity. The antagonistic interactions between plants and herbivores lead to host race formation: the evolut...
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Open AccessGlobally intertwined evolutionary history of giant barrel sponges
Three species of giant barrel sponge are currently recognized in two distinct geographic regions, the tropical Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific. In this study, we used molecular techniques to study populations of...
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Open AccessNo adaptation of a herbivore to a novel host but loss of adaptation to its native host
Most herbivorous arthropods are host specialists and the question is which mechanisms drive the evolution of such specialization. The theory of antagonistic pleiotropy suggests that there is a trade-off betwee...
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Open AccessIncomplete premating and postmating reproductive barriers between two parapatric populations of a social spider mite
Closely related species with overlap** distributions often show premating reproductive barriers to avoid hybridization. Stigmaeopsis miscanthi (Saito) is a social spider mite infesting Chinese silver grass, and...
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Open AccessDiversity and recombination in Wolbachia and Cardinium from Bryobiaspider mites
Wolbachia and Cardinium are endosymbiotic bacteria infecting many arthropods and manipulating host reproduction. Although these bacteria are maternally transmitted, incongruencies between phylogenies of host and ...
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Open AccessSpider mite (Acari: Tetranychidae) mitochondrial COI phylogeny reviewed: host plant relationships, phylogeography, reproductive parasites and barcoding
The past 15 years have witnessed a number of molecular studies that aimed to resolve issues of species delineation and phylogeny of mites in the family Tetranychidae. The central part of the mitochondrial COI ...
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Wolbachia and cytoplasmic incompatibility in the spider mites Tetranychus urticae and T. turkestani
Wolbachia form a group of closely related intracellular Proteobacteria that manipulate reproduction of their arthropod host in various ways. They are widespread in insects, but have not been not looked for in oth...
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Effect of genotype on cytoplasmic incompatibility between two species of Nasonia
Cytoplasmically inherited bacteria cause bidirectional incompatibility between two species of the parasitoid wasp genus Nasonia. These bacteria belong to the alpha sub-division of the Proteo-bacteria. Normally, h...