Plant scents modify innate colour preference in foraging swallowtail butterflies

Flower-visiting insects exhibit innate preferences for particular colours. A previous study demonstrated that naive Papilio xuthus females prefer yellow and red, whereas males are more attracted to blue. Here, we demonstrate that the innate colour preference can be modified by olfactory stimuli in a...

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Published in:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Yoshida, Mina, Itoh, Yuki, Ômura, Hisashi, Arikawa, Kentaro, Kinoshita, Michiyo
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The Royal Society 2015
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Animal Behaviour
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528451/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26179802
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0390
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