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How these parasite–host interactions impact on the fitness of hemiparasitic plants remain largely unknown.</jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          We used experimentally tractable eyebrights (\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          , Orobanchaceae) to understand parasite–host species interactions affecting the performance of a generalist hemiparasitic plant. Common garden experiments were carried out measuring\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          performance across 45 diverse hosts and in different parasite–host combinations.\n                        </jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          We show that variation in hemiparasite performance can be attributed mainly to host species and host phylogenetic relationships (\n                          <jats:italic>λ</jats:italic>\n                           = 0.82; 0.17–1.00 CI). When variation in performance is considered temporally, annual host species cause earlier flowering, and lead to poorer performance late in the season. While\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          species typically perform similarly on a given host species, some eyebrights show more specialized parasite–host species interactions.\n                        </jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          Our results show that generalist hemiparasites only benefit from attaching to a limited, but phylogenetically divergent, subset of hosts. The conserved responses of divergent\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          species suggest hemiparasite performance is affected by common host attributes. However, evidence for more complex parasite–host species interactions show that a generalist hemiparasite can potentially respond to individual host selection pressures and may adapt to local host communities.\n                        </jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                    </jats:list>\n                  </jats:p>","journal":"New Phytologist","year":2021,"id":606501,"datarank":0.38474240361923057,"base_score":2.5649493574615367,"endowment":2.5649493574615367,"self_citation_contribution":0.38474240361923057,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.38474240361923057,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":12,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":null,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":false,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":null,"fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":1557028,"name":"Paloma G. 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How these parasite–host interactions impact on the fitness of hemiparasitic plants remain largely unknown.</jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          We used experimentally tractable eyebrights (\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          , Orobanchaceae) to understand parasite–host species interactions affecting the performance of a generalist hemiparasitic plant. Common garden experiments were carried out measuring\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          performance across 45 diverse hosts and in different parasite–host combinations.\n                        </jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          We show that variation in hemiparasite performance can be attributed mainly to host species and host phylogenetic relationships (\n                          <jats:italic>λ</jats:italic>\n                           = 0.82; 0.17–1.00 CI). When variation in performance is considered temporally, annual host species cause earlier flowering, and lead to poorer performance late in the season. While\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          species typically perform similarly on a given host species, some eyebrights show more specialized parasite–host species interactions.\n                        </jats:p>\n                      </jats:list-item>\n                      <jats:list-item>\n                        <jats:p>\n                          Our results show that generalist hemiparasites only benefit from attaching to a limited, but phylogenetically divergent, subset of hosts. The conserved responses of divergent\n                          <jats:italic>Euphrasia</jats:italic>\n                          species suggest hemiparasite performance is affected by common host attributes. 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