Various Chemical Strategies to Deceive Ants in Three Arhopala Species (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) Exploiting Macaranga Myrmecophytes

Macaranga myrmecophytes (ant-plants) are generally well protected from herbivore attacks by their symbiotic ants (plant-ants). However, larvae of Arhopala (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) species survive and develop on specific Macaranga ant-plant species without being attacked by the plant-ants of their h...

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Autores principales: Inui, Yoko, Shimizu-kaya, Usun, Okubo, Tadahiro, Yamsaki, Eri, Itioka, Takao
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25853675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120652

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4390302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25853675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0120652

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