Plant defense compounds play a key role in the evolution of insect–plant associations by
selecting for behavioral, morphological, and physiological insect adaptations. Sequestration …

Understanding the diversity of insect responses to chemical pressures (eg plant
allelochemicals and pesticides) in their local ecological context represents a key challenge …

Avoiding Attack discusses the diversity of mechanisms by which prey avoid predator attacks
and explores how such defensive mechanisms have evolved through natural selection. It …

Most plant families are distinguished by characteristic secondary metabolites, which can
function as putative defence against herbivores. However, many herbivorous insects of …

The parasite paradox arises from the dual observations that parasites (broadly construed,
including phytophagous insects) are resource specialists with restricted host ranges, and yet …

Highlights•We review sequestration of plant toxins in the context of ecology and evolution.•
Sequestration parallels dietary specialization but is not an evolutionary dead …

Plants defend themselves from insect herbivores with a vast array of chemical defenses, yet
insects have evolved several mechanisms for detoxifying these and even sequestering them …

Evidence for a major extinction of insect herbivores is provided by presence–absence data
for 51 plant–insect associations on 13,441 fossil plant specimens, spanning the Cretaceous …

For the location of hosts and prey, insect carnivores (ie, parasitoids or predators) often use
infochemical cues that may originate from the host/prey itself but also from the food of the …

Abstract Cassidinae (ca. 6000 species) is the second largest clade of Chrysomelidae (leaf
beetles; ca. 40,000 species). It has been historically treated as two separate subfamilies …