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Parasitoids use chemical footprints to track down caterpillars

Parasitoid wasps in search for plant-feeding hosts display typical patterns of behavior. The braconid Cotesia marginiventris, which parasitizes young caterpillars, is guided by herbivore-induced plant volatiles to an infested plant. On the plant, the female wasp searches for further chemical residue...

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Main Authors: Wölfling, Mirko, Rostás, Michael
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: Landes Bioscience 2009
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734046/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19721889
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