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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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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