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When defense backfires: Detrimental effect of a plant’s protective trichomes on an insect beneficial to the plant
The plant Mentzelia pumila (family Loasaceae) has leaves and stems densely covered with tiny hooked trichomes. The structures entrap and kill insects and therefore are most probably protective. But they are also maladaptive in that they incapacitate a coccinellid beetle (Hippodamia convergens) that...
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The National Academy of Sciences
1998
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| Online Zugang: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC22502/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9539750 |
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