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Self-Medication as Adaptive Plasticity: Increased Ingestion of Plant Toxins by Parasitized Caterpillars

Self-medication is a specific therapeutic behavioral change in response to disease or parasitism. The empirical literature on self-medication has so far focused entirely on identifying cases of self-medication in which particular behaviors are linked to therapeutic outcomes. In this study, we frame...

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Autores principales: Singer, Michael S., Mace, Kevi C., Bernays, Elizabeth A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19274098
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004796