Host Specialization in Plant-galling Interactions: Contrasting Mites and Insects
Diversity, 2019 Galling arthropods represent one of the most specialized herbivore groups. On an evolutionary scale, different taxa of insects and mites have convergently adapted to a galling lifestyle.
Walter Santos de Araújo +11 more
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Exotic species and the structure of a plant-galling network [PDF]
Network Biology, 2017 Gall-inducing insects are highly specialized herbivores and is expected that networks composed by gall-inducing insects and their host plants are also very specialized.
Walter Santos de Araujo +2 more
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Plant‐galling insect interactions: a data set of host plants and their gall‐inducing insects for the Cerrado [PDF]
Ecology, 2020 AbstractRecent decades have seen increased research interest in the processes and mechanisms related to insect gall richness and host plants. The data set provided here includes 968 records of interactions between galling insects and host plants for the Cerrado biome. The data set comprises 505 species of 222 genera and 67 families of host plants.
Fernanda C. F. Cintra +8 more
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A comparative venomic fingerprinting approach reveals that galling and non-galling fig wasp species have different venom profiles. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 The galling habit represents a complex type of interaction between insects and plants, ranging from antagonism to mutualism. The obligate pollination mutualism between Ficus and fig wasps relies strongly on the induction of galls in Ficus flowers, where ...
Larissa G Elias +6 more
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Diversity of galling insects in Styrax pohlii (Styracaceae): edge effect and use as bioindicators [PDF]
Revista de Biología Tropical, 2011 Impacts of forest fragmentation and edge effect on plant-herbivores interactions are relatively unknown, and the relationships between galling insects and their host plants are very susceptible to environmental variations.
Walter Santos de Araújo +4 more
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Evidence for a stress hypothesis: hemiparasitism effect on the colonization of Alchornea castaneaefolia A. Juss.uphorbiaceae) by Galling Insects [PDF]
Acta Amazonica, 2003 Stressed plants are generally more attacked by galling insects. In this study we investigated the relationship between population abundance and species richness of galling insects on the tree Alchornea castaneaefolia A. JUSS. (Euphorbiaceae), submited to
Gustavo SCHWARTZ +6 more
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Distribution of galling insects and their parasitoids on Caryocar brasiliense tree crowns
Brazilian Journal of Biology, 2021 Caryocar brasiliense Camb. (Malpighiales: Caryocaraceae) is widely distributed in the Brazilian savanna and its fruits are used by humans for food, production of cosmetics, lubricants, and in the pharmaceutical industry.
G. L. D. Leite +7 more
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Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, 2021 This study inventoried and characterized the richness of galling insects based on gall morphotypes and their host plants in two Cerrado sensu stricto areas of Caetité municipality in Bahia State, Brazil, to aid the identification of galling insects and ...
GABRIELA B.D. CAMPOS +4 more
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Where host plant goes, galls go too: new records of the Neotropical galling Cecidomyiidae (Diptera) associated with Calophyllum brasiliense Cambess. (Calophyllaceae) [PDF]
Check List, 2016 Calophyllum brasiliense, a Neotropical species, hosts seven galling Cecidomyiidae reported only for Brazil. Our hypothesis is the distribution of the galling insects associated with C. brasiliense is similar to that of the host plant.
Ígor Arriola +4 more
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PLoS ONE, 2018 This study describes differences in species richness and composition of the assemblages of galling insects and their host plants at different spatial scales.
Marcel Serra Coelho +4 more
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