Defense suppression benefits herbivores that have a monopoly on their feeding site but can backfire within natural communities

BACKGROUND: Plants have inducible defenses to combat attacking organisms. Hence, some herbivores have adapted to suppress these defenses. Suppression of plant defenses has been shown to benefit herbivores by boosting their growth and reproductive performance. RESULTS: We observed in field-grown toma...

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Published in:BMC Biol
Main Authors: Glas, Joris J, Alba, Juan M, Simoni, Sauro, Villarroel, Carlos A, Stoops, Marije, Schimmel, Bernardus CJ, Schuurink, Robert C, Sabelis, Maurice W, Kant, Merijn R
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4258945/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25403155
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-014-0098-9
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