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SUBMITTER: Balke M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2359786 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Balke Michael M Gómez-Zurita Jesús J Ribera Ignacio I Viloria Angel A Zillikens Anne A Steiner Josephina J García Mauricio M Hendrich Lars L Vogler Alfried P AP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20080423 17
Water reservoirs formed by the leaf axils of bromeliads are a highly derived system for nutrient and water capture that also house a diverse fauna of invertebrate specialists. Here we investigate the origin and specificity of bromeliad-associated insects using Copelatinae diving beetles (Dytiscidae). This group is widely distributed in small water bodies throughout tropical forests, but a subset of species encountered in bromeliad tanks is strictly specialized to this habitat. An extensive molec ...[more]