Host shifting and host sharing in a genus of specialist flies diversifying alongside their sunflower hosts
A. C. Hippee, M. A. Beer, R. K. Bagley, M. A. Condon, A. Kitchen, E. A. Lisowski, A. L. Norrbom, A. A. Forbes
The paper investigates host sharing among sunflower maggot flies by analyzing genomic data, finding that host shifts may result from hybridization events in sunflower plants rather than traditional host shifts.
bioRxiv · Mar 18, 2020Evolutionary Biology