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'Foraging' for a place to lay eggs: A genetic link between foraging behaviour and oviposition preferences

Gravid female arthropods in search of egg-laying substrates embark on foraging-like forays: they survey the environment assessing multiple patches, tasting each with their tarsi and proboscis, and then, if interested, they deposit an egg (or eggs). In fruit flies, Drosophila melanogaster, allelic va...

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Autores principales: McConnell, Murray W., Fitzpatrick, Mark J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5473555/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28622389
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179362