Evolutionary BiologyEvolutionPeer-reviewed
Speciation in kleptoparasites of oak gall wasps often correlates with shifts into new tree habitats, tree organs, and gall morphospace
Anna K. G. Ward, Yuanmeng Miles Zhang, Guerin E. Brown…·Andrew A. Forbes
The paper investigates whether host shifts to new trees, organs, or gall morphologies drive diversification in oak gall wasp kleptoparasites, finding that most divergence events correlate with shifts to non-ancestral galls.