The digestive and defensive basis of carcass utilization by the burying beetle and its microbiota

Insects that use ephemeral resources must rapidly digest nutrients and simultaneously protect them from competitors. Here we use burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides), which feed their offspring on vertebrate carrion, to investigate the digestive and defensive basis of carrion utilization. We c...

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Autores principales: Vogel, Heiko, Shukla, Shantanu P., Engl, Tobias, Weiss, Benjamin, Fischer, Rainer, Steiger, Sandra, Heckel, David G., Kaltenpoth, Martin, Vilcinskas, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28485370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15186

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436106/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28485370
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15186

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