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Insects Can Count: Sensory Basis of Host Discrimination in Parasitoid Wasps Revealed

The solitary parasitoid Leptopilina heterotoma is one of the best studied organisms concerning the ecology, behaviour and physiology of host discrimination. Behavioural evidence shows that L. heterotoma uses its ovipositor to discriminate not only between parasitized and unparasitized Drosophila mel...

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Autores principales: Ruschioni, Sara, van Loon, Joop J. A., Smid, Hans M., van Lenteren, Joop C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4605743/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26466380
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138045