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Cost of autotomy drives ontogenetic switching of anti-predator mechanisms under developmental constraints in a land snail
Autotomy of body parts offers various prey animals immediate benefits of survival in compensation for considerable costs. I found that a land snail Satsuma caliginosa of populations coexisting with a snail-eating snake Pareas iwasakii survived the snake predation by autotomizing its foot, whereas th...
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The Royal Society
2012
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| Acceso en liña: | https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497097/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23034702 https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.1943 |
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