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Endogenous toxins and the coupling of gregariousness to conspicuousness in Argidae and Pergidae sawflies

Phytophagous insects tend to be either cryptic and solitary, or brightly colored and gregarious, as a defense against vertebrate predators. Here, we tested whether potent defensive chemicals produced de novo by larvae of Argidae and Pergidae sawflies have influenced the evolutionary relationship bet...

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Autores principales: Boevé, Jean-Luc, Nyman, Tommi, Shinohara, Akihiko, Schmidt, Stefan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6281571/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30518939
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35925-z