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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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Autor principal: Hoso, Masaki
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2012
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Acceso en línea: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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