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SUBMITTER: Crossley MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7896708 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Crossley Michael S MS Snyder William E WE Hardy Nate B NB
Evolutionary applications 20200827 2
Herbivorous insects must circumvent the chemical defenses of their host plants and, in cropping systems, must also circumvent synthetic insecticides. The pre-adaptation hypothesis posits that when herbivorous insects evolve resistance to insecticides, they co-opt adaptations against host plant defenses. Despite its intuitive appeal, few predictions of this hypothesis have been tested systematically. Here, with survival analysis of more than 17,000 herbivore-insecticide interactions, we show that ...[more]