Natural selection drives the fine-scale divergence of a coevolutionary arms race involving a long-mouthed weevil and its obligate host plant

• Published in: BMC evolutionary biology Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 273
• Main Author: Toju, Hirokazu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 27.11.2009; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Animals; Biological Evolution; Camellia; Camellia - physiology; Curculio; Ecosystem; Evolutionary biology; Female; Fruit - physiology; Genetic Variation; Genetics, Population; Geography; Japan; Natural selection; Oviposition; Research article; Selection, Genetic; Species Specificity; Weevils - genetics; Weevils - physiology; Japan

One of the major recent advances in evolutionary biology is the recognition that evolutionary interactions between species are substantially differentiated among geographic populations. To date, several authors have revealed natural selection pressures mediating the geographically-divergent processe...