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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...
Autores principales: | Horváth, Gábor, Pereszlényi, Ádám, Egri, Ádám, Tóth, Tímea, Jánosi, Imre Miklós |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |
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