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Specialization Trade-offs

Specialization Trade-Offs is a theoretical construct in evolutionary biology that describes the inherent compromise between enhanced performance in a specific ecological or host-related niche and the concomitant loss of fitness or functionality in alternative niches, arising due to antagonistic pleiotropy or resource allocation constraints during adaptation.

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Evolutionary Trade-Offs, Pareto Optimality, and the Geometry of Phenotype Space

Oren Shoval, Hila Sheftel, Guy Shinar et al. · Science · 2012 · 700 citations

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The Evolution of Host Specialization: Are Trade-Offs Overrated?

James D. Fry · The American Naturalist · 1996 · 422 citations

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Revisiting the evolution of ecological specialization, with emphasis on insect–plant interactions

M. L. Forister, Lee A. Dyer, Michael S. Singer et al. · Ecology · 2011 · 309 citations · Full text

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Live Where You Thrive: Joint Evolution of Habitat Choice and Local Adaptation Facilitates Specialization and Promotes Diversity

Virginie Ravigné, Ulf Dieckmann, Isabelle Olivieri · The American Naturalist · 2009 · 269 citations

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Specialized Feeding Behavior Influences Both Ecological Specialization and Assortative Mating in Sympatric Host Races of Pea Aphids

Marina C. Caillaud, Sara Via · The American Naturalist · 2000 · 245 citations

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Authors

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  1. CR
    Claus Rueffler

    University of Vienna, Austria

    2 publications · 205 citations

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  2. JD
    Jason D. Hoeksema

    University of Mississippi, United States

    2 publications · 247 citations

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  3. MW
    Mark W. Schwartz

    University of California, Davis, United States

    2 publications · 247 citations

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  4. UD
    Ulf Dieckmann

    International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Austria

    2 publications · 476 citations

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  5. GV
    Gert Villumsen

    Aalborg University, Denmark

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  1. Wesleyan University

    Middletown, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    350 citations

  2. University of Nevada, Reno

    Reno, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    690 citations

  3. Central European University

    Vienna, Austria

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  4. Universität Greifswald

    Greifswald, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  5. University of Bath

    Bath, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    63 citations

  6. University of Padua

    Padua, Italy

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  7. Bank of England

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    18 citations

  8. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    104 citations

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  1. The American Naturalist

    AN · 10 publications · 1.4K citations

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  2. Ecology

    4 publications · 740 citations

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  3. Journal of Evolutionary Biology

    JEB · 3 publications · 144 citations

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  4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    PNAS · 3 publications · 230 citations

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  5. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

    2 publications · 59 citations

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