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Title: | Behavior and Ecology of New and Old World Luperini Beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) |
Author(s): | Lewis, Phillip Andrew |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Robert Lee Metcalf |
Department / Program: | Entomology |
Discipline: | Entomology |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | Agriculture, General |
Abstract: | In summary then, in my study I have been able to provide additional evidence of the close relationship between the Aulacophorina and the Diabroticina. The similar response and adaptation to cucurbitacins by these beetles suggests a common evolutionary origin of these two groups. However, the apparent lack of a common response to Cucurbita blossom volatiles suggests recent evolutionary pathways became substantially different as their populations diverged concomitant with geographic isolation. |
Issue Date: | 1997 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 155 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/86473 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI9737177 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-28 |
Date Deposited: | 1997 |
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