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Butterfly proboscis: combining a drinking straw with a nanosponge facilitated diversification of feeding habits

The ability of Lepidoptera, or butterflies and moths, to drink liquids from rotting fruit and wet soil, as well as nectar from floral tubes, raises the question of whether the conventional view of the proboscis as a drinking straw can account for the withdrawal of fluids from porous substrates or of...

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Auteurs principaux: Monaenkova, Daria, Lehnert, Matthew S., Andrukh, Taras, Beard, Charles E., Rubin, Binyamin, Tokarev, Alexander, Lee, Wah-Keat, Adler, Peter H., Kornev, Konstantin G.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3284131/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21849382
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2011.0392
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