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drought (pers. obs.). These fact<strong>or</strong>s might have contributed to the variation in resistance of hybrids. However, experiments<br />
wilt be required to test if tile relative resistance of hybrids shifts with manipulated changes in specific environmental fact<strong>or</strong>s.<br />
Guild membership was not a reliable indicat<strong>or</strong> of similar responses of herbiv<strong>or</strong>es to hybrids and parents. Among the<br />
leaf galling guild, all four hypotheses were supp<strong>or</strong>ted in at least 1 year. Leaf miners supp<strong>or</strong>ted two different hypotheses<br />
(Additive and Hybrid Susceptibility) considering the 3 years together (Table 2). These results indicate that combining the<br />
densities of two <strong>or</strong> m<strong>or</strong>e species in the same guild f<strong>or</strong> hybrid-parent comparisons will obscure the underlying patterns of<br />
herbiv<strong>or</strong>e densities on hybrids and parents. In <strong>this</strong> analysis, numbers of Phyllocolpa nigrita and Phyllocolpa sp. nov. were<br />
combined in 1992 and 1993, because densities of these species had not been distinguished on S. sericea of the willow species<br />
in 1991. Theref<strong>or</strong>e, the conclusions drawn from these species should be considered with caution.<br />
SUMMARY<br />
We studied herbiv<strong>or</strong>y of two species of willows (Salix sericea and S. eriocephala) and their interspecific hybrids to<br />
test four alternative hypotheses concerning the effects of hybridization on plant resistance. Individually marked plants were<br />
identified using m<strong>or</strong>phological traits in the field, and RAPD band analysis was used to verify the genetic status of some<br />
parental and hybrid plants. The densities of 11herbiv<strong>or</strong>e species were compared between 2 parents and their hybrids in the<br />
field. We found the most supp<strong>or</strong>t f<strong>or</strong> the Additive hypothesis and the Hybrid Susceptibility hypothesis over the three years.<br />
We found some evidence f<strong>or</strong> the Dominance hypothesis, and one species in one year supp<strong>or</strong>ted the Hybrid Resistance<br />
hypothesis. Guild membership was not a good predict<strong>or</strong> of similar responses of species to hybrid versus parental plants.<br />
This study demonstrates the diversity of responses of phytophages in response to interspecific hybridization, and indicates the<br />
presence of year-to-year variation, which might indicate the influence of environmental variation on the expression of hybrid<br />
resistance.<br />
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS<br />
We would like to thank Len and Ellie Sosnowski f<strong>or</strong> allowing us to w<strong>or</strong>k on their property. We thank S. Kaufman,<br />
N. Murphy, P. Zee, M. Momot, A. Samsel, A. Dao, J. Hama, A. Samsel, and G. Sylvan f<strong>or</strong> help in the field. This research<br />
was supp<strong>or</strong>ted by the National Science Foundation grants BSR 89-17752 to R. S. Fritz and DEB 92-07363 to R. S. Fritz and<br />
C. M. Orians, and by the Vassar College General <strong>Research</strong> Fund.<br />
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