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How goats avoid ingesting noxious insects while feeding

As mammalian herbivores feed, they often encounter noxious insects on plants. It is unknown how they handle such insects. We experimentally examined the behavioural responses of goats to the noxious spring-webworm (Ocnogyna loewii), and manipulated their sensory perception to reveal the process of i...

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Autores principales: Berman, Tali S., Ben-Ari, Matan, Glasser, Tzach A., Gish, Moshe, Inbar, Moshe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5665868/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29093560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14940-6