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SUBMITTER: Hardy NB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5979754 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hardy Nate B NB Peterson Daniel A DA Ross Laura L Rosenheim Jay A JA
Evolutionary applications 20171218 5
According to the pre-adaptation hypothesis, the evolution of insecticide resistance in plant-eating insects co-opts adaptations that initially evolved during chemical warfare with their host plants. Here, we used comparative statistics to test two predictions of this hypothesis: (i) Insects with more diverse diets should evolve resistance to more diverse insecticides. (ii) Feeding on host plants with strong or diverse qualitative chemical defenses should prime an insect lineage to evolve insecti ...[more]