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Fearful symmetry in aposematic plants

Symmetry has been proposed to increase the efficiency of visual aposematic displays in animals, and I suggest that it may also be true for many aposematic spiny or poisonous plants. For instance, in the very spiny plant taxa cacti, Aloe sp., Agave sp. and Euphorbia sp., which have been proposed to b...

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Main Author: Lev-Yadun, Simcha
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Landes Bioscience 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3329346/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22067106
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4161/psb.6.11.17666
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