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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...
| Autores principales: | , , , , , , , , |
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |