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A survey of Agromyzidae (Diptera) reared from leafmines on Long Island, New York; host associations, distribution data, and the description and host association of a new species by Scheffer, Sonja J, Lonsdale, Owen

“…Leafmining Agromyzidae (Diptera) are both common and widespread, yet little is known of the host associations and distribution of most species. Here we report…”
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Geographic population structure of the sugarcane borer, Diatraea saccharalis (F.) (Lepidoptera: Crambidae), in the southern United States by Joyce, Andrea L, White, William H, Nuessly, Gregg S, Solis, M Alma, Scheffer, Sonja J, Lewis, Matthew L, Medina, Raul F

“…The sugarcane borer moth, Diatraea saccharalis, is widespread throughout the Western Hemisphere, and is considered an introduced species in the southern United…”
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Repeated climate-linked host shifts have promoted diversification in a temperate clade of leaf-mining flies by Winkler, Isaac S, Mitter, Charles, Scheffer, Sonja J

“…A central but little-tested prediction of "escape and radiation" coevolution is that colonization of novel, chemically defended host plant clades accelerates…”
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The phylogeny and divergence times of leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) from anchored phylogenomics by Xuan, Jing-Li, Scheffer, Sonja J., Lewis, Matt, Cassel, Brian K., Liu, Wan-Xue, Wiegmann, Brian M.

“…[Display omitted] •The phylogeny of leaf-mining flies is reconstructed using anchored phylogenomics.•A new subfamily clade is proposed,…”
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Peruvian origin and global invasions of five continents by the highly damaging agricultural pest Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae) by Scheffer, Sonja J., Lewis, Matthew L., Mujica, Norma, MacVean, Charles, Blanco‐Metzler, Helga, Joshi, Ravindra C., Jacobsen, Frode

“…Identification of the geographic origin of invasive species can be critical to effective management and amelioration of negative impacts in the introduced…”
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Lethal Interactions Between Parasites and Prey Increase Niche Diversity in a Tropical Community by Condon, Marty A., Scheffer, Sonja J., Lewis, Matthew L., Wharton, Robert, Adams, Dean C., Forbes, Andrew A.

“…Ecological specialization should minimize niche overlap, yet herbivorous neotropical flies (Blepharoneura) and their lethal parasitic wasps (parasitoids)…”
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Phylogenetic relationships of the tribe Toxotrypanini (Diptera: Tephritidae) based on molecular characters by Mengual, Ximo, Kerr, Peter, Norrbom, Allen L., Barr, Norman B., Lewis, Matthew L., Stapelfeldt, Anna M., Scheffer, Sonja J., Woods, Patrick, Islam, Md-Sajedul, Korytkowski, Cheslavo A., Uramoto, Keiko, Rodriguez, Erick J., Sutton, Bruce D., Nolazco, Norma, Steck, Gary J., Gaimari, Stephen

“…[Display omitted] •Tribe Toxotrypanini is non-monophyletic and Hexachaeta is not related to Anastrepha.•Genera Anastrepha and Toxotrypana should be considered…”
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Diversity and Host Plant-Use in North American Phytomyza Holly Leafminers (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Colonization, Divergence, and Specificity in a Host-Associated Radiation by Scheffer, Sonja J., Lewis, Matthew L., Hébert, Julie B, Jacobsen, Frode

“…Insects that feed on plants are widely used for studies of host-plant-associated speciation due to their diversity and tractability. The value of these studies…”
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A genome‐wide phylogeny and the diversification of genus Liriomyza (Diptera: Agromyzidae) inferred from anchored phylogenomics by Xuan, Jing‐Li, Scheffer, Sonja J., Lonsdale, Owen, Cassel, Brian K., Lewis, Matthew L., Eiseman, Charles S., Liu, Wan‐Xue, Wiegmann, Brian M.

“…The genus Liriomyza Mik (Diptera: Agromyzidae) is a diverse and globally distributed group of acalyptrate flies. Phylogenetic relationships among Liriomyza…”
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Reproductive Isolation between Host Races of Phytomyza glabricola on Ilex coriacea and I. glabra by Hebert, Julie B, Scheffer, Sonja J, Hawthorne, David J, Heil, Martin

“…Recently diverged taxa often show discordance in genetic divergence among genomic loci, where some loci show strong divergence and others show none at all…”
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Anatomy of a Neotropical insect radiation by Winkler, Isaac, Scheffer, Sonja J, Lewis, Matthew L, Ottens, Kristina J, Rasmussen, Andrew P, Gomes-Costa, Géssica A, Huerto Santillan, Luz Maria, Condon, Marty A, Forbes, Andrew A

“…Much evolutionary theory predicts that diversity arises via both adaptive radiation (diversification driven by selection against niche-overlap within…”
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The Invasive Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae): Understanding Its Pest Status and Management Globally by Weintraub, Phyllis G, Scheffer, Sonja J, Visser, Diedrich, Valladares, Graciela, Soares Correa, Alberto, Shepard, B Merle, Rauf, Aunu, Murphy, Sean T, Mujica, Norma, MacVean, Charles, Kroschel, Jürgen, Kishinevsky, Miriam, Joshi, Ravindra C, Johansen, Nina S, Hallett, Rebecca H, Civelek, Hasan S, Chen, Bing, Metzler, Helga Blanco

“…Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) is native to South America but has expanded its range and invaded many regions of the world, primarily on flowers and to a…”
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New records of Leptopilina, Ganaspis, and Asobara species associated with Drosophila suzukii in North America, including detections of L. japonica and G. brasiliensis by Abram, Paul K., McPherson, Audrey E., Kula, Robert, Hueppelsheuser, Tracy, Thiessen, Jason, Perlman, Steve J., Curtis, Caitlin I., Fraser, Jessica L., Tam, Jordan, Carrillo, Juli, Gates, Michael, Scheffer, Sonja, Lewis, Matthew, Buffington, Matthew

“…We report the presence of two Asian species of larval parasitoids of spotted wing Drosophila, Drosophila suzukii (Matsumura) (Diptera: Drosophilidae), in…”
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Hidden Neotropical Diversity: Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts by Condon, Marty A, Scheffer, Sonja J, Lewis, Matthew L, Swensen, Susan M

“…The diversity of tropical herbivorous insects has been explained as a direct function of plant species diversity. Testing that explanation, we reared 2857…”
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Phylogenetic relationships within the leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) inferred from sequence data from multiple genes by Scheffer, Sonja J., Winkler, Isaac S., Wiegmann, Brian M.

“…The leaf-mining flies (Diptera: Agromyzidae) are a diverse group whose larvae feed internally in leaves, stems, flowers, seeds, and roots of a wide variety of…”
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emerging example of tritrophic coevolution between flies (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) and nematodes (Nematoda: Neotylenchidae) on Myrtaceae host plants by Nelson, Leigh A, Davies, Kerrie A, Scheffer, Sonja J, Taylor, Gary S, Purcell, Matthew F, Giblin‐Davis, Robin M, Thornhill, Andrew H, Yeates, David K

“…A unique obligate mutualism occurs between species of Fergusonina Malloch flies (Diptera: Fergusoninidae) and nematodes of the genus Fergusobia Currie…”
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Molecular Survey for the Invasive Leafminer Pest Liriomyza huidobrensis (Diptera: Agromyzidae) in California Uncovers Only the Native Pest Liriomyza langei by Scheffer, Sonja J., Lewis, Matthew L., Gaimari, Stephen D., Reitz, Stuart R.

“…Liriomyza huidobrensis (Blanchard) is a highly destructive invasive leafminer pest currently causing extensive damage to vegetable and horticultural crops…”
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Hennig’s orphans revisited: Testing morphological hypotheses in the “Opomyzoidea” (Diptera: Schizophora) by Winkler, Isaac S., Rung, Alessandra, Scheffer, Sonja J.

“…The acalyptrate fly superfamily Opomyzoidea, as currently recognized, is a poorly-known group of 14 families. The composition of this group and relationships…”
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Host‐plant associated genetic divergence of two Diatraea spp. (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) stemborers on novel crop plants by Joyce, Andrea L., Sermeno Chicas, Miguel, Serrano Cervantes, Leopoldo, Paniagua, Miguel, Scheffer, Sonja J., Solis, M. Alma

“…Diatraea lineolata and Diatraea saccharalis (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) are moths with stemboring larvae that feed and develop on economically important grasses…”
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Molecular evidence of host-associated genetic divergence in the holly leafminer Phytomyza glabricola (Diptera: Agromyzidae): apparent discordance among marker systems by Scheffer, S.J, Hawthorne, D.J

“…Host races play a central part in understanding the role of host plant mediated divergence and speciation of phytophagous insects. Of greatest interest are…”
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