Name - Tetraopes tetraophthalmus

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urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:114255 [metadata]

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Recent Publications

• Evolution of Specialization: A Phylogenetic Study of Host Range in the Red Milkweed Beetle (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus).
• Direct and indirect root defences of milkweed (Asclepias syriaca): trophic cascades, trade-offs and novel methods for studying subterranean herbivory.
• Allocation of resources away from sites of herbivory under simultaneous attack by aboveground and belowground herbivores in the common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca.
• Above-ground herbivory by red milkweed beetles facilitates above- and below-ground conspecific insects and reduces fruit production in common milkweed.
• Trade-offs and tritrophic consequences of host shifts in specialized root herbivores.

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