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Authors Scott Egan, left, and Daniel Funk with willow leaf beetle, left, and maple leaf beetle. Their research has established these inconspicuous beetles as an important example of how ecological factors contribute to evolutionary divergence and the origin of Earth’s millions of species. (Credit: Composite by Michael Smelzer, photos by John Russell/Vanderbilt University)
VANDERBILT (US)—Tiny leaf beetles that flit among the maple and willow trees in a Vermont town have provided some of the clearest evidence yet that environmental factors play a major role in the formation of new species. Continue…
