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Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selectionJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Nature 417:735-8. 2002..Conservation of the evolutionary processes maintaining long-term biological diversity may require preservation of the conditions that allow a long-term shifting geographic mosaic of coevolutionary hotspots and coldspots...- Evolution of polyploidy and the diversification of plant-pollinator interactionsJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Ecology 89:2197-206. 2008.... 
The coevolving web of lifeJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Am Nat 173:125-40. 2009..e., polyploidy) and whole-genome capture (i.e., hybridization) in generating novel webs of interacting species? I end by suggesting four points about coevolution that we should tell every new student or researcher in biology...- Temporal dynamics of antagonism and mutualism in a geographically variable plant-insect interactionJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz 95064, USA
Ecology 87:103-12. 2006..Overall, the results suggest stable geographic differences in the range of ecological outcomes in this plant-insect interaction under different community contexts... - Ecology. Mutualistic webs of speciesJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
Science 312:372-3. 2006 - Coevolution: the geographic mosaic of coevolutionary arms racesJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Curr Biol 15:R992-4. 2005..Coevolutionary arms races between species can favor exaggeration of traits for attack and defense, but relentless escalation of these arms races does not necessarily occur in all populations... - Coevolutionary biology: sex and the geographic mosaic of coevolutionJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
Curr Biol 19:R735-6. 2009..Natural selection can favor the coexistence of sexual and asexual forms of a species even within a single ecosystem, when hotspots of coevolution between hosts and parasites occur next to coldspots... - Retention of mutualism in a geographically diverging interactionJohn N Thompson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Ecol Lett 13:1368-77. 2010..Our results suggest that the coevolving mutualism between Greya and Lithophragma has potentially been enhanced rather than diminished as this interaction has diversified in the number of pollinating Greya species... - Coevolution drives temporal changes in fitness and diversity across environments in a bacteria-bacteriophage interactionSamantha E Forde
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Evolution 62:1830-9. 2008..Our results demonstrate that patterns of fitness and diversity resulting from coevolutionary interactions can be highly dynamic... - Understanding the limits to generalizability of experimental evolutionary modelsSamantha E Forde
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Nature 455:220-3. 2008.... - Diverse historical processes shape deep phylogeographical divergence in the pollinating seed parasite Greya politellaKatherine A Rich
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Earth and Marine Sciences Building, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Mol Ecol 17:2430-48. 2008..Together, these results suggest that vicariance and population expansion, possibly in combination with geographically variable selection, have shaped the diversification of G. politella and its interactions with its host plants... 
Diversity of floral visitors to sympatric Lithophragma species differing in floral morphologyMariana Cuautle
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Oecologia 162:71-80. 2010....- Cryptic species within the cosmopolitan desiccation-tolerant moss Grimmia laevigataCatherine C Fernandez
Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:637-42. 2006..laevigata, in combination with its life history, growth habits, and extreme desiccation tolerance, makes this moss an ideal research tool and a candidate for a biological indicator of climate change and pollution... - Adaptation varies through space and time in a coevolving host-parasitoid interactionSamantha E Forde
Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
Nature 431:841-4. 2004..We show that gene flow across a spatially structured landscape alters coevolution of parasitoids and their hosts and that the resulting patterns of adaptation can fluctuate in both space and time... - Interactions of biotic and abiotic environmental factors in an ectomycorrhizal symbiosis, and the potential for selection mosaicsBridget J Piculell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1156 High Street, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
BMC Biol 6:23. 2008..Don) and one of its common ectomycorrhizal fungi (Rhizopogon occidentalis Zeller and Dodge) varies in outcome, when different combinations of plant and fungal genotypes are tested under a range of different abiotic and biotic conditions... - Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networksPaulo R Guimarães
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA
Ecol Lett 14:877-85. 2011..Introduced species such as honeybees will favour trait convergence in invaded communities, whereas the loss of large frugivores will lead to increased trait dissimilarity in tropical ecosystems... - Gene flow reverses an adaptive cline in a coevolving host-parasitoid interactionSamantha E Forde
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA
Am Nat 169:794-801. 2007..However, adaptation decreased along the same productivity gradient with experimentally imposed gene flow of the host and parasitoid. This occurred despite relatively low rates of gene flow... - Patterns of molecular evolution and diversification in a biodiversity hotspot: the California Floristic ProvinceRyan Calsbeek
Center for Tropical Research, 1609 Hershey Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Mol Ecol 12:1021-9. 2003.... - Coevolutionary alternation in antagonistic interactionsScott L Nuismer
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 83844, USA
Evolution 60:2207-17. 2006..The result is often repeated, and potentially rapid, evolutionary shifts in patterns of specialization within networks of interacting species... - Asymmetries in specialization in ant-plant mutualistic networksPaulo R Guimarães
Departamento de Ecología Aplicada, Instituto de Ecologia, AC Apartado 63, Xalapa, Veracruz 91070, Mexico
Proc Biol Sci 273:2041-7. 2006..Our results support a promising approach for the development of multispecies coevolutionary theory, leading to the idea that specialization may coevolve in different but simple ways in antagonistic and mutualistic assemblages... - Coevolution in variable mutualismsRichard Gomulkiewicz
School of Biological Sciences, P O Box 644236, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164, USA
Am Nat 162:S80-93. 2003..Taken as a whole, these theoretical results suggest that many features of mutualistic coevolution can best be understood by considering spatial, temporal, and community-dependent patterns of fitness interactions... - Interaction intimacy affects structure and coevolutionary dynamics in mutualistic networksPaulo R Guimarães
Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas 6165, Campinas Sao Paulo, 13083 970, Brazil
Curr Biol 17:1797-803. 2007....