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Standing on the shoulders of giants: young aphids piggyback on adults when searching for a host plant

BACKGROUND: Upon the detection of imminent peril, pea aphids (Acyrthosiphon pisum) often drop off their host plant. Dropping in response to insect enemies is intermittent in nature, but when a mammalian herbivore feeds on their host plant, a large mixed-age group of aphids usually drops off the plan...

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Autores principales: Gish, Moshe, Inbar, Moshe
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6282293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30534184
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0292-7