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Inside the horn of plenty: Leaf-mining micromoth manipulates its host plant to obtain unending food provisioning

Leaves represent the main resource for herbivorous insects and their performances are mainly a function of leaf nutritional quality. Two feeding strategies are known to optimize the exploitation of leaf resources: leaf-miners that selectively feed on tissues of high nutritional quality and gall-indu...

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Autores principales: Guiguet, Antoine, Hamatani, Akihisa, Amano, Taisuke, Takeda, Seiji, Lopez-Vaamonde, Carlos, Giron, David, Ohshima, Issei
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6303051/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30576396
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209485