Meanings
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of cospeciate
If downy mildews and host plants have indeed cospeciated, then it is expected that the number of lineage divergences in their mapped dated trees show a similar changing pattern over time.
2015 August 1, “Host Jumps and Radiation, Not Co‐Divergence Drives Diversification of Obligate Pathogens. A Case Study in Downy Mildews and Asteraceae”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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