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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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BioMed Central
2008
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| 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 |