First evidence for an aposematic function of a very common color pattern in small insects

Many small parasitoid wasps have a black head, an orange mesosoma and a black metasoma (BOB color pattern), which is usually present in both sexes. A likely function of this widespread pattern is aposematic (warning) coloration, but this has never been investigated. To test this hypothesis, we prese...

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Autores principales: Mora-Castro, Rebeca, Alfaro-Córdoba, Marcela, Hernández-Jiménez, Marcela, Fernández Otárola, Mauricio, Méndez-Rivera, Michael, Ramírez-Morales, Didier, Rodríguez-Rodríguez, Carlos E., Durán-Rodríguez, Andrés, Hanson, Paul E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33571212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237288

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7877781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33571212
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0237288

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