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Preference, performance, and chemical defense in an endangered butterfly using novel and ancestral host plants

Adoption of novel host plants by herbivorous insects can require new adaptations and may entail loss of adaptation to ancestral hosts. We examined relationships between an endangered subspecies of the butterfly Euphydryas editha (Taylor’s checkerspot) and three host plant species. Two of the hosts (...

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Autores principales: Haan, Nathan L., Bowers, M. Deane, Bakker, Jonathan D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7809109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33446768
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80413-y