Environment predicts the maintenance of reproductive isolation in a mosaic hybrid zone of rubber rabbitbrush

TM Faske, AC Agneray, JP Jahner… - …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Widely distributed plants of western North America experience divergent selection across
environmental gradients, have complex histories shaped by biogeographic barriers and …

Arthropod communities associated with gall-inducing Aciurina bigeloviae and Aciurina trixa (Diptera: Tephritidae) in New Mexico

Q Baine, EE Casares, DWW Hughes… - Annals of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Insect-induced galls are novel structures that serve as habitat to whole communities of
associate arthropods that include predators, parasitoids, and inquilines. Galling insects are …

External insect gall morphology influences the functional guilds of natural enemy communities

Q Baine, DWW Hughes, EE Casares… - …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of diverse and novel morphological traits is poorly understood, especially how
symbiotic interactions can drive these adaptations. The extreme diversity of external traits in …

[HTML][HTML] Discovery of a new gall-inducing species, Aciurinaluminaria (Insecta, Diptera, Tephritidae) via multi-trait integrative taxonomy

Q Baine, B White, VG Martinson, EO Martinson - ZooKeys, 2024 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Integrative taxonomic practices that combine multiple lines of evidence for species
delimitation greatly improve our understanding of intra-and inter-species variation and …