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    • Host Plant Specialization Driven by Sexual Selection 

      Quental, Tiago; Paten, Manus; Pierce, Naomi (University of Chicago Press, 2007)
      We propose a new mechanism based on sexual selection to explain the evolution of diet breadth in insects. More specifically, we show that mate choice in females for certain diet-derived male pheromones can be exploited ...