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Sex-based differences in anti-predator response of crickets to chemical cues of a mammalian predator

Anti-predator behaviors like vigilance or hiding come at the expense of other fitness increasing behaviors such as foraging. To compensate for this trade-off, prey assess predation risk and modify the frequency of anti-predator behaviors according to the likelihood of the threat. In this study, we t...

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Autores principales: Tanis, Brian P., Bott, Bradley, Gaston, Brian J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PeerJ Inc. 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001705/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29910976
http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4923