Patterns of host use by brood parasitic Maculinea butterflies across Europe
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F19%3A43915148" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/19:43915148 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0202" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0202</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2018.0202" target="_blank" >10.1098/rstb.2018.0202</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Patterns of host use by brood parasitic Maculinea butterflies across Europe
Original language description
The range of hosts exploited by a parasite is determined by several factors, including host availability, infectivity and exploitability. Each of these can be the target of natural selection on both host and parasite, which will determine the local outcome of interactions, and potentially lead to coevolution. However, geographical variation in host use and specificity has rarely been investigated. Maculinea (=Phengaris) butterflies are brood parasites of Myrmica ants that are patchily distributed across the Palæarctic and have been studied extensively in Europe. Here, we review the published records of ant host use by the European Maculinea species, as well as providing new host ant records for more than 100 sites across Europe. This comprehensive survey demonstrates that while all but one of the Myrmica species found on Maculinea sites have been recorded as hosts, the most common is often disproportionately highly exploited. Host sharing and host switching are both relatively common, but there is evidence of specialization at many sites, which varies among Maculinea species. We show that most Maculinea display the features expected for coevolution to occur in a geographic mosaic, which has probably allowed these rare butterflies to persist in Europe.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
ISSN
0962-8436
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
374
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1769
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
17
Pages from-to
20180202
UT code for WoS article
000460486500011
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85062196214