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Gustatory Sensitivity and Food Acceptance in Two Phylogenetically Closely Related Papilionid Species: Papilio hospiton and Papilio machaon

In herbivorous insects, food selection depends on sensitivity to specific chemical stimuli from host-plants as well as to secondary metabolites (bitter) and to sugars (phagostimulatory). Bitter compounds are noxious, unpalatable or both and evoke an aversive feeding response. Instead, sugars and sug...

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Autores principales: Sollai, Giorgia, Tomassini Barbarossa, Iole, Masala, Carla, Solari, Paolo, Crnjar, Roberto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4067346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24956387
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0100675