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Onset of Oviposition Triggers Abrupt Reduction in Migratory Flight Behavior and Flight Muscle in the Female Beet Webworm, Loxostege sticticalis

Flight and reproduction are usually considered as two life history traits that compete for resources in a migratory insect. The beet webworm, Loxostege sticticalis L., manages the costs of migratory flight and reproduction through a trade-off in timing of these two life history traits, where migrato...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Yunxia, Luo, Lizhi, Sappington, Thomas W., Jiang, Xingfu, Zhang, Lei, Frolov, Andrei N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125633/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27893835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0166859