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Why do biting horseflies prefer warmer hosts? tabanids can escape easier from warmer targets

Blood-sucking horseflies (tabanids) prefer warmer (sunlit, darker) host animals and generally attack them in sunshine, the reason for which was unknown until now. Recently, it was hypothesized that blood-seeking female tabanids prefer elevated temperatures, because their wing muscles are quicker and...

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Autores principales: Horváth, Gábor, Pereszlényi, Ádám, Egri, Ádám, Tóth, Tímea, Jánosi, Imre Miklós
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7219777/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32401816
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233038