Toxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects

Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant is learned by wild birds, to the point that a...

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Autor principal: Grinham, Luke R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2021
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Research Highlight
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8595686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34785753
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02830-7
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spelling pubmed-85956862021-11-19 Toxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects Grinham, Luke R. Commun Biol Research Highlight Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant is learned by wild birds, to the point that any insect on the plant faces a lower predation risk. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-11-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8595686/ /pubmed/34785753 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02830-7 Text en © Springer Nature Limited 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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