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A Field Experiment Demonstrating Plant Life-History Evolution and Its Eco-Evolutionary Feedback to Seed Predator Populations

scientific article published on July 30, 2012

A direct comparison of ecological theories for predicting the relationship between plant traits and growth

A direct comparison of the consequences of plant genotypic and species diversity on communities and ecosystem function.

scientific article

A genetically-based latitudinal cline in the emission of herbivore-induced plant volatile organic compounds.

scientific article

A private channel of nitrogen alleviates interspecific competition for an annual legume

scientific article published in 2021

A role for isothiocyanates in plant resistance against the specialist herbivore Pieris rapae

scientific article

A scale-dependent framework for trade-offs, syndromes, and specialization in organismal biology

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Above-ground herbivory by red milkweed beetles facilitates above- and below-ground conspecific insects and reduces fruit production in common milkweed

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Adaptive geographical clines in the growth and defense of a native plant

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Additive and interactive effects of plant genotypic diversity on arthropod communities and plant fitness

scientific article published on 01 January 2006

Advances in understanding the long-term population decline of monarch butterflies

scientific article published on 29 March 2019

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-Mediated Transformation of Three Milkweed Species (Asclepias hallii, A. syriaca, and A. tuberosa: Apocynaceae)

scientific article published on 01 March 2020

Ants defend aphids against lethal disease

scientific article published on 18 November 2009

Asymmetry of plant-mediated interactions between specialist aphids and caterpillars on two milkweeds

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Attenuation of the Jasmonate Burst, Plant Defensive Traits, and Resistance to Specialist Monarch Caterpillars on Shaded Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)

scientific article published on June 3, 2012

Benefits and Constraints on Plant Defense against Herbivores: Spines Influence the Legitimate and Illegitimate Flower Visitors of Yellow Star Thistle, Centaurea solstitialis L. (Asteraceae)

article by Anurag Agrawal et al published March 2000 in Southwestern Naturalist

Biotic interactions and plant invasions

scientific article

COSTS OF INDUCED RESPONSES AND TOLERANCE TO HERBIVORY IN MALE AND FEMALE FITNESS COMPONENTS OF WILD RADISH.

scientific article published in August 1999

Cardenolide Intake, Sequestration, and Excretion by the Monarch Butterfly along Gradients of Plant Toxicity and Larval Ontogeny

scientific article published on 22 February 2019

Cardenolides in nectar may be more than a consequence of allocation to other plant parts: a phylogenetic study ofAsclepias

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Cardenolides, induced responses, and interactions between above- and belowground herbivores of milkweed (Asclepias spp.).

scientific article

Cardenolides, toxicity, and the costs of sequestration in the coevolutionary interaction between monarchs and milkweeds

scientific article

Clonal versus non-clonal milkweeds (Asclepias spp.) respond differently to stem damage, affecting oviposition by monarch butterflies

scientific article published on 03 November 2020

Coexistence of three specialist aphids on common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca

scientific article published in August 2008

Communication between plants: this time it's real

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Community heterogeneity and the evolution of interactions between plants and insect herbivores

scientific article published on December 2006

Community-wide convergent evolution in insect adaptation to toxic cardenolides by substitutions in the Na,K-ATPase.

scientific article

Consequences of toxic secondary compounds in nectar for mutualist bees and antagonist butterflies

scientific article published in September 2016

Corruption of journal Impact Factors.

scientific article

Deer browsing delays succession by altering aboveground vegetation and belowground seed banks

scientific article

Defense mutualisms enhance plant diversification

scientific article

Different rates of defense evolution and niche preferences in clonal and nonclonal milkweeds (Asclepias spp.).

scientific article published on 17 September 2015

Direct and interactive effects of enemies and mutualists on plant performance: a meta-analysis

scientific article published in April 2007

Divergence of defensive cucurbitacins in independent Cucurbita pepo domestication events leads to differences in specialist herbivore preference

scientific article published on 14 July 2020

Do plant defenses predict damage by an invasive herbivore? A comparative study of the viburnum leaf beetle

scientific article

Domatia mediate plantarthropod mutualism

scientific article published in Nature

ECOLOGICAL GENETICS OF AN INDUCED PLANT DEFENSE AGAINST HERBIVORES: ADDITIVE GENETIC VARIANCE AND COSTS OF PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY

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ENEMY RELEASE? AN EXPERIMENT WITH CONGENERIC PLANT PAIRS AND DIVERSE ABOVE- AND BELOWGROUND ENEMIES

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Ecological Interactions, Environmental Gradients, and Gene Flow in Local Adaptation

Ecological genetics of an induced plant defense against herbivores: additive genetic variance and costs of phenotypic plasticity

scientific article published on November 2002

Evidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defenses

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2009)

Evolution and seed dormancy shape plant genotypic structure through a successional cycle

scientific article

Evolution of phenotypic plasticity: Genetic differentiation and additive genetic variation for induced plant defence in wild arugula Eruca sativa

scientific article published on 24 November 2019

Evolution of plant growth and defense in a continental introduction.

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Evolution of plant resistance and tolerance to frost damage

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Evolution of specialization: a phylogenetic study of host range in the red milkweed beetle (Tetraopes tetraophthalmus).

scientific article published in June 2011

Evolutionary history and species interactions

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2009)

Evolutionary history predicts plant defense against an invasive pest

scientific article

Evolutionary potential of root chemical defense: genetic correlations with shoot chemistry and plant growth

scientific article

Evolutionary trade-offs in plants mediate the strength of trophic cascades

scientific article published in March 2010

Exotic plants contribute positively to biodiversity functions but reduce native seed production and arthropod richness

scientific article

Experimental insect suppression causes loss of induced, but not constitutive, resistance in <i>Solanum carolinense</i>

scientific article published in 2022

Filling key gaps in population and community ecology

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First evidence of hexameric and heptameric ellagitannins in plants detected by liquid chromatography/electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry

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Fitness consequences of occasional outcrossing in a functionally asexual plant (Oenothera biennis).

scientific article published on 2 December 2017

Four more reasons to be skeptical of open-access publishing

scientific article published on 9 February 2014

Frontiers in chemical ecology and coevolution.

scientific article published in June 2014

Genetic Variation in Parental Effects Contributes to the Evolutionary Potential of Prey Responses to Predation Risk

scholarly article by Natasha Tigreros et al published 1 February 2021 in The American Naturalist

Genome editing retraces the evolution of toxin resistance in the monarch butterfly

scientific article published on 02 October 2019

Herbivore Offense

scientific article published in 2002

Herbivores and the success of exotic plants: a phylogenetically controlled experiment

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Herbivory enhances positive effects of plant genotypic diversity

scientific article

Herbivory in the previous generation primes plants for enhanced insect resistance.

scientific article published on 30 December 2011

How herbivores coopt plant defenses: natural selection, specialization, and sequestration

scientific article

In defense of roots: a research agenda for studying plant resistance to belowground herbivory.

scientific article published on March 2008

Induced Responses to Herbivory and Increased Plant Performance

scientific article published on February 20, 1998

Induced plant responses and information content about risk of herbivory

scientific article published on 01 November 1999

Induced resistance mitigates the effect of plant neighbors on susceptibility to herbivores

scientific article published in 2021

Induced responses to herbivory and jasmonate in three milkweed species

scientific article published on November 2009

Induction of preference and performance after acclimation to novel hosts in a phytophagous spider mite: adaptive plasticity?

scientific article published on 01 May 2002

Insect herbivores drive real-time ecological and evolutionary change in plant populations.

scientific article

Insect herbivory and plant adaptation in an early successional community

scientific article published on 17 February 2018

Integrated metabolic strategy: A framework for predicting the evolution of carbon‐water tradeoffs within plant clades

scientific article

Interactive effects of genotype, environment, and ontogeny on resistance of cucumber (Cucumis sativus) to the generalist herbivore, Spodoptera exigua.

scientific article

Interview with Anurag A. Agrawal

scientific article published in May 2012

Latex: A Model for Understanding Mechanisms, Ecology, and Evolution of Plant Defense Against Herbivory

scientific article published in December 2009

Latitudinal Gradients

scientific article published in 2005

Latitudinal patterns in plant defense: evolution of cardenolides, their toxicity and induction following herbivory

scientific article published on 3 March 2011

Learning in Insect Pollinators and Herbivores

scientific article published on 28 October 2016

Less Is More: a Mutation in the Chemical Defense Pathway of Erysimum cheiranthoides (Brassicaceae) Reduces Total Cardenolide Abundance but Increases Resistance to Insect Herbivores

scientific article published on 12 November 2020

Linking the continental migratory cycle of the monarch butterfly to understand its population decline

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Long‐term impacts of insect herbivores on plant populations and communities

scientific article published in 2022

Macroevolution and the biological diversity of plants and herbivores

scientific article (publication date: 27 October 2009)

Macroevolution of plant defense strategies

scientific article published on 13 November 2006

Measuring the cost of plasticity: avoid multi-collinearity

article by Josh R. Auld et al published 22 June 2011 in Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Mechanisms and evolution of plant resistance to aphids

scientific article published on 6 January 2016

Mechanisms behind the monarch's decline

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

Mechanisms of Resistance to Insect Herbivores in Isolated Breeding Lineages of Cucurbita pepo

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Mechanisms of constraints: the contributions of selection and genetic variance to the maintenance of cotyledon number in wild radish

scientific article published on 01 January 2005

Mechanisms, ecological consequences and agricultural implications of tri-trophic interactions

scientific article

Microsatellites for Oenothera gayleana and O. hartwegii subsp. filifolia (Onagraceae), and their utility in section Calylophus.

scientific article published on 9 February 2016

Milkweed butterfly resistance to plant toxins is linked to sequestration, not coping with a toxic diet

scientific article published in November 2015

Monarchs and milkweed

2017 non-fiction book by Anurag A. Agrawal

Multidrug transporters and organic anion transporting polypeptides protect insects against the toxic effects of cardenolides

scientific article published on 20 December 2016

Nectar, nodules and cheaters

scientific article published on 01 March 2001

New Synthesis—Trade-offs in Chemical Ecology

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Observation, natural history, and an early post-Darwinian view of plant-animal interactions

scientific article published in December 2014

On the study of plant defence and herbivory using comparative approaches: how important are secondary plant compounds

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Ontogenetic strategies in insect herbivores and their impact on tri-trophic interactions

scientific article published on 20 November 2018

Oviposition strategy as a means of local adaptation to plant defence in native and invasive populations of the viburnum leaf beetle

scientific article published on August 17, 2011

Parallel changes in host resistance to viral infection during 45,000 generations of relaxed selection

scientific article published on 19 August 2010

Phenotypic plasticity in the interactions and evolution of species

scientific article

Phenotypic plasticity to light competition and herbivory in Chenopodium album (Chenopodiaceae).

scientific article published in January 2005

Phylogenetic and Experimental Tests of Interactions among Mutualistic Plant Defense Traits in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)

scientific article published on August 22, 2012

Phylogenetic correlations among chemical and physical plant defenses change with ontogeny.

scientific article published on 4 February 2015

Phylogenetic ecology of leaf surface traits in the milkweeds (Asclepias spp.): chemistry, ecophysiology, and insect behavior

scientific article

Phylogenetic escalation and decline of plant defense strategies

scholarly article

Phylogenetic trends in phenolic metabolism of milkweeds (Asclepias): evidence for escalation.

scientific article

Phylogeny of the plant genusPachypodium(Apocynaceae)

scientific article published on April 23, 2013

Phylogeny, ecology, and the coupling of comparative and experimental approaches

scientific article (publication date: July 2012)

Plant Defense by Latex: Ecological Genetics of Inducibility in the Milkweeds and a General Review of Mechanisms, Evolution, and Implications for Agriculture

scientific article published on 21 November 2019

Plant chemical defense indirectly mediates aphid performance via interactions with tending ants

scientific article published on 6 January 2017

Plant defense against herbivory: progress in identifying synergism, redundancy, and antagonism between resistance traits

scientific article

Plant defense and density dependence in the population growth of herbivores

scientific article published on 3 June 2004

Plant defense syndromes

scientific article published on July 2006

Plant genotype shapes ant-aphid interactions: implications for community structure and indirect plant defense

scientific article

Plant-herbivore coevolution and plant speciation

scientific article published on 20 May 2019

Plants talk, but are they deaf?

scientific article published in September 2003

Polymorphic buttonwood: effects of disturbance on resistance to herbivores in green and silver morphs of a Bahamian shrub

scientific article published on December 1, 2004

Population Variation, Environmental Gradients, and the Evolutionary Ecology of Plant Defense against Herbivory

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Rapid herbivore-induced changes in mountain birch phenolics and nutritive compounds and their effects on performance of the major defoliator, Epirrita autumnata.

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Re-evaluating the costs and limits of adaptive phenotypic plasticity

scientific article published on 21 October 2009

Recent Successional Changes in a Former Chestnut-Dominated Forest in Southwestern Virginia

scientific article published in 1995

Reciprocal interactions between native and introduced populations of common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca, and the specialist aphid, Aphis nerii

scientific article published in 2014

Relative Selectivity of Plant Cardenolides for Na/K-ATPases From the Monarch Butterfly and Non-resistant Insects

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Resistance and susceptibility of milk-weed: competition, root herbivory and plant genetic variation

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Salicylate-mediated interactions between pathogens and herbivores.

scientific article published on April 2010

Specialist versus generalist insect herbivores and plant defense

scientific article published on March 15, 2012

Specific impacts of two root herbivores and soil nutrients on plant performance and insect-insect interactions

scientific article published in 2013

Specificity of herbivore-induced hormonal signaling and defensive traits in five closely related milkweeds (Asclepias spp.).

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Spillover of a biological control agent (Chrysolina quadrigemina) onto native St. Johnswort (Hypericum punctatum).

scientific article published on 31 March 2016

Synthesizing specificity: multiple approaches to understanding the attack and defense of plants

scientific article published on 11 April 2012

The Benefits of Induced Defenses Against Herbivores

scientific article (publication date: July 1997)

The Monarch Butterfly through Time and Space: The Social Construction of an Icon

scientific article published in May 2015

The ecology and evolution of plant tolerance to herbivory

scientific article published in May 1999

The evolution of coevolution in the study of species interactions

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The importance of plant genotype and contemporary evolution for terrestrial ecosystem processes

scientific article published in October 2015

The raison d'être of chemical ecology.

scientific article published on March 2015

The role of toxic nectar secondary compounds in driving differential bumble bee preferences for milkweed flowers

scientific article published on 15 July 2020

Toward a Predictive Framework for Convergent Evolution: Integrating Natural History, Genetic Mechanisms, and Consequences for the Diversity of Life

scientific article

Toxic cardenolides: chemical ecology and coevolution of specialized plant-herbivore interactions

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Toxicity of Milkweed Leaves and Latex: Chromatographic Quantification Versus Biological Activity of Cardenolides in 16 Asclepias Species

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Toxicity of the spiny thick-foot Pachypodium

scientific article published on 23 April 2018

Trade-Offs Between Plant Growth and Defense Against Insect Herbivory: An Emerging Mechanistic Synthesis

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Trade-offs and synergies in management of two co-occurring specialist squash pests

scientific article

Trade-offs and tritrophic consequences of host shifts in specialized root herbivores

scientific article published in 2016

Trade-offs constrain the evolution of an inducible defense within but not between plant species

scientific article published on 31 July 2019

Transgenerational defense induction and epigenetic inheritance in plants.

scientific article published on 31 August 2012

Transgenerational induction of defences in animals and plants

scientific article published in Nature