Chewing Through Challenges: Exploring the Evolutionary Pathways to Wood-Feeding in Insects
C. F. Beza-Beza, B. M. Wiegmann, J. A. Ware, M. Petersen, N. Gunter, M. E. Cole, M. Schwarz, M. A. Bertone, D. Young, A. Mikaelyan
This paper investigates the evolutionary origins of saproxylophagy in insects, proposing the Detritivore-First Hypothesis and emphasizing the role of gut microbiomes in wood digestion.
bioRxiv · Dec 27, 2023Evolutionary Biology