Butterfly host plant range: an example of plasticity as a promoter of speciation?

By S. Nylin, N. Janz. Evolutionary Ecology, 2007

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The generalism-specialism debate: the role of generalists in the life and death of species (2011, background): “…broadcast general defences easily overcome or (3) possess sufficient genetic variability (thus large enough populations) and/or have sufficient phenotypic plasticity to experiment on more ‘distant’ plant hosts at the risk of much failure (Futuyma, 1983; Nylin & Janz, 2009; Agosta et al., 2010).”
How specialists can be generalists: resolving the “parasite paradox” and implications for emerging infectious disease (2010, background): “Indeed, ‘cospeciation’ was first proposed tophagous insects) are resource specialists with restricted host ranges, and yet shifts onto relatively unrelated hosts are common in the phylogenetic diversification of parasite lineages and directly observable in ecological time.”