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Extreme convergence in egg-laying strategy across insect orders

The eggs of stick and leaf insects (Phasmatodea) bear strong resemblance to plant seeds and are commonly dispersed by females dropping them to the litter. Here we report a novel egg-deposition mode for Phasmatodea performed by an undescribed Vietnamese species of the enigmatic subfamily Korinninae t...

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Autores principales: Goldberg, Julia, Bresseel, Joachim, Constant, Jerome, Kneubühler, Bruno, Leubner, Fanny, Michalik, Peter, Bradler, Sven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648384/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25592976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep07825