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Coevolutionary arms race versus host defense chase in a tropical herbivore–plant system by Endara, María-José, Coley, Phyllis D., Ghabash, Gabrielle, Nicholls, James A., Dexter, Kyle G., Donoso, David A., Stone, Graham N., Pennington, R. Toby, Kursar, Thomas A.

“…Coevolutionary models suggest that herbivores drive diversification and community composition in plants. For herbivores, many questions remain regarding how…”
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Sweet Tetra-Trophic Interactions: Multiple Evolution of Nectar Secretion, a Defensive Extended Phenotype in Cynipid Gall Wasps by Nicholls, James A., Melika, George, Stone, Graham N.

“…Many herbivores employ reward-based mutualisms with ants to gain protection from natural enemies. We examine the evolutionary dynamics of a tetra-trophic…”
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Using targeted enrichment of nuclear genes to increase phylogenetic resolution in the neotropical rain forest genus Inga (Leguminosae: Mimosoideae) by Nicholls, James A, Pennington, R Toby, Koenen, Erik J M, Hughes, Colin E, Hearn, Jack, Bunnefeld, Lynsey, Dexter, Kyle G, Stone, Graham N, Kidner, Catherine A

“…Evolutionary radiations are prominent and pervasive across many plant lineages in diverse geographical and ecological settings; in neotropical rainforests…”
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Reconstructing Community Assembly in Time and Space Reveals Enemy Escape in a Western Palearctic Insect Community by Stone, Graham N., Lohse, Konrad, Nicholls, James A., Fuentes-Utrilla, Pablo, Sinclair, Frazer, Schönrogge, Karsten, Csóka, György, Melika, George, Nieves-Aldrey, Jose-Luis, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Tavakoli, Majide, Askew, Richard R., Hickerson, Michael J.

“…How geographically widespread biological communities assemble remains a major question in ecology [1–4]. Do parallel population histories allow sustained…”
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New species of Dryocosmus Giraud gallwasps from California (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) galling Chrysolepis Hjelmq. (Fagaceae) by Nicholls, James A, Melika, George, Demartini, John, Stone, Graham N

“…Four species of Dryocosmus cynipid gallwasps are now known to induce galls on Chrysolepis in California and Oregon. Two new species, Dryocosmus demartinii…”
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Current status of the oak gallwasp (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) fauna of the Eastern Palaearctic and Oriental Regions by PÉnzes, Zsolt, Tang, Chang-Ti, Stone, Graham N, Nicholls, James A, SchwÉger, Szabina, BozsÓ, MiklÓs, Melika, George

“…Cynipid gallwasps comprise 1364 species worldwide, predominantly in temperate regions of the Holarctic. The vast majority of recorded species are from the…”
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Plastid phylogenomics reveals evolutionary relationships in the mycoheterotrophic orchid genus Dipodium and provides insights into plastid gene degeneration by Goedderz, Stephanie, Clements, Mark A, Bent, Stephen J, Nicholls, James A, Patel, Vidushi S, Crayn, Darren M, Schlüter, Philipp M, Nargar, Katharina

“…The orchid genus R.Br. (Epidendroideae) comprises leafy autotrophic and leafless mycoheterotrophic species, with the latter confined to sect. . This study…”
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Description of the sexual generation of Dryocosmus destefanii (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) and disclosure of its life cycle by Cerasa, Giuliano, Verde, Gabriella Lo, Caleca, Virgilio, Massa, Bruno, Nicholls, James A, Melika, George

“…The sexual generation of Dryocosmus destefanii Cerasa Melika, 2018 that emerges from galls on Q. suber L. in Italy is described for the first time,…”
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Tournament ABC analysis of the western Palaearctic population history of an oak gall wasp, Synergus umbraculus by Stone, Graham N., White, Sarah C., Csóka, György, Melika, George, Mutun, Serap, Pénzes, Zsolt, Sadeghi, S. Ebrahim, Schönrogge, Karsten, Tavakoli, Majid, Nicholls, James A.

“…Approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) is a powerful and widely used approach in inference of population history. However, the computational effort required to…”
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Extreme Host Plant Conservatism During at Least 20 Million Years of Host Plant Pursuit by Oak Gallwasps by Stone, Graham N, Hernandez-Lopez, Antonio, Nicholls, James A, Pierro, Erica di, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Melika, George, Cook, James M

“…Diversification of insect herbivores is often associated with coevolution between plant toxins and insect countermeasures, resulting in a specificity that…”
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Chemocoding as an identification tool where morphological- and DNA-based methods fall short: Inga as a case study by Endara, María‐José, Coley, Phyllis D., Wiggins, Natasha L., Forrister, Dale L., Younkin, Gordon C., Nicholls, James A., Pennington, R. Toby, Dexter, Kyle G., Kidner, Catherine A., Stone, Graham N., Kursar, Thomas A.

“…The need for species identification and taxonomic discovery has led to the development of innovative technologies for large-scale plant identification. DNA…”
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Tracking of Host Defenses and Phylogeny During the Radiation of Neotropical Inga -Feeding Sawflies (Hymenoptera; Argidae) by Endara, María-José, Nicholls, James A, Coley, Phyllis D, Forrister, Dale L, Younkin, Gordon C, Dexter, Kyle G, Kidner, Catherine A, Pennington, R T, Stone, Graham N, Kursar, Thomas A

“…Coevolutionary theory has long predicted that the arms race between plants and herbivores is a major driver of host selection and diversification. At a local…”
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Life History, Natural Enemies, and Management of Disholcaspis quercusvirens (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae) on Live Oak Trees by Bird, Jessica Platt, Melika, George, Nicholls, James A, Stone, Graham N, Buss, Eileen A

“…Live oak (Quercus virginiana Mill.) trees are hosts to a complex of gall making arthropods. However, the bullet galls produced by the asexual generation of the…”
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Developing EPIC markers for chalcidoid Hymenoptera from EST and genomic data by LOHSE, KONRAD, SHARANOWSKI, BARBARA, BLAXTER, MARK, NICHOLLS, JAMES A, STONE, GRAHAM N

“…Increasing numbers of phylogeographic studies make comparative inferences about the histories of co-distributed species. Although the aims of such studies are…”
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Faecal metabarcoding reveals pervasive long-distance impacts of garden bird feeding by Shutt, Jack D., Trivedi, Urmi H., Nicholls, James A.

“…Supplementary feeding of wildlife is widespread, being undertaken by more than half of households in many countries. However, the impact that these…”
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Community impacts of anthropogenic disturbance: natural enemies exploit multiple routes in pursuit of invading herbivore hosts by Nicholls, James A, Fuentes-Utrilla, Pablo, Hayward, Alexander, Melika, George, Csóka, György, Nieves-Aldrey, José-Luis, Pujade-Villar, Juli, Tavakoli, Majid, Schönrogge, Karsten, Stone, Graham N

“…Biological invasions provide a window on the process of community assembly. In particular, tracking natural enemy recruitment to invading hosts can reveal the…”
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A new genus of oak gallwasp, Protobalandricus Melika, Nicholls Stone (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini) from California by Nicholls, James A, Stone, Graham N, Melika, George

“…We describe a new genus of cynipid oak gallwasp, Protobalandricus Melika, Nicholls Stone (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). Protobalandricus gen. nov…”
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Gradients in richness and turnover of a forest passerine's diet prior to breeding: A mixed model approach applied to faecal metabarcoding data by Shutt, Jack D., Nicholls, James A., Trivedi, Urmi H., Burgess, Malcolm D., Stone, Graham N., Hadfield, Jarrod D., Phillimore, Albert B.

“…Rather little is known about the dietary richness and variation of generalist insectivorous species, including birds, due primarily to difficulties in prey…”
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Corrigendum: Patterns of diversification amongst tropical regions compared: a case study in Sapotaceae by Armstrong, Kate E, Stone, Graham N, Nicholls, James A, Valderrama, Eugenio, Anderberg, Arne A, Smedmark, Jenny, Gautier, Laurent, Naciri, Yamama, Milne, Richard, Richardson, James E

“…[This corrects the article on p. 362 in vol. 5, PMID: 25520736.]…”
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PERCHED AT THE MITO-NUCLEAR CROSSROADS: DIVERGENT MITOCHONDRIAL LINEAGES CORRELATE WITH ENVIRONMENT IN THE FACE OF ONGOING NUCLEAR GENE FLOW IN AN AUSTRALIAN BIRD by Pavlova, Alexandra, Amos, J. Nevil, Joseph, Leo, Loynes, Kate, Austin, Jeremy J., Keogh, J. Scott, Stone, Graham N., Nicholls, James A., Sunnucks, Paul

“…Relationships among multilocus genetic variation, geography, and environment can reveal how evolutionary processes affect genomes. We examined the evolution of…”
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