Rapid radiation of ant parasitic butterflies during the Miocene aridification of Africa

Abstract Africa has undergone a progressive aridification during the last 20 My that presumably impacted organisms and fostered the evolution of life history adaptations. We test the hypothesis that shift to living in ant nests and feeding on ant brood by larvae of phyto‐predaceous Lepidochrysops bu...

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Principais autores:	Marianne Espeland, Nicolas Chazot, Fabien L. Condamine, Alan R. Lemmon, Emily Moriarty Lemmon, Ernest Pringle, Alan Heath, Steve Collins, Wilson Tiren, Martha Mutiso, David C. Lees, Stewart Fisher, Raymond Murphy, Stephen Woodhall, Robert Tropek, Svenja S. Ahlborn, Kevin Cockburn, Jeremy Dobson, Thierry Bouyer, Zofia A. Kaliszewska, Christopher C. M. Baker, Gerard Talavera, Roger Vila, Alan J. Gardiner, Mark Williams, Dino J. Martins, Szabolcs Sáfián, David A. Edge, Naomi E. Pierce
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado:	Wiley 2023-05-01
Series:	Ecology and Evolution
Assuntos:	butterfly–ant interactions Lepidochrysops Lycaenidae myrmecophagy phytopredation
Acceso en liña:	https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10046
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