Defense suppression benefits herbivores that have a monopoly on their feeding site but can backfire within natural communities

BACKGROUND: Plants have inducible defenses to combat attacking organisms. Hence, some herbivores have adapted to suppress these defenses. Suppression of plant defenses has been shown to benefit herbivores by boosting their growth and reproductive performance. RESULTS: We observed in field-grown toma...

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Autores principales: Glas, Joris J, Alba, Juan M, Simoni, Sauro, Villarroel, Carlos A, Stoops, Marije, Schimmel, Bernardus CJ, Schuurink, Robert C, Sabelis, Maurice W, Kant, Merijn R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25403155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0098-9

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25403155
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0098-9

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