• openAccess   Rapid specialization of counter defenses enables two-spotted spider mite to adapt to novel plant hosts 

      Salehipourshirazi, Golnaz; Bruinsma, Kristie; Ratlamwala, Huzefa; Dixit, Sameer; Arbona, Vicent; Widemann, Emilie; Milojevic, Maja; Jin, Peng-Yu; Bensoussan, Nicolas; Gomez-Cadenas, Aurelio; Zhurov, Vladimir; Grbic, Miodrag; Grbic, Vojislava American Society of Plant Biologists (2021-08-31)
      Genetic adaptation, occurring over a long evolutionary time, enables host-specialized herbivores to develop novel resistance traits and to efficiently counteract the defenses of a narrow range of host plants. In contrast, ...