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No-cost meals might not exist for insects feeding on toxic plants

Plants produce chemicals (or plant specialised/secondary metabolites, PSM) to protect themselves against various biological antagonists. Herbivorous insects use plants in two ways: as a food source and as a defence source. Insects can detoxify and sequester PSMs in their bodies as a defence mechanis...

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Autor principal: Pokharel, Prayan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Company of Biologists Ltd 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10308589/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37314183
http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/bio.059800