Bad housekeeping: why do aphids leave their exuviae inside the colony?

BACKGROUND: Animals can gain protection against predators and parasites by living in groups. The encounter-dilution effect provides protection when the probability of detection of a group does not increase in proportion to group size (i.e. encounter effect), so that predators do not offset the encou...

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Autores principales: Muratori, Frédéric B, Damiens, David, Hance, Thierry, Boivin, Guy
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19099559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-338

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2625368/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19099559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-8-338

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