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Absence of food alternatives promotes risk-prone feeding of unpalatable substances in honey bees

The question of why animals sometimes ingest noxious substances is crucial to understand unknown determinants of feeding behaviour. Research on risk-prone feeding behaviour has largely focused on energy budgets as animals with low energy budgets tend to ingest more aversive substances. A less explor...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Desmedt, Lucie, Hotier, Lucie, Giurfa, Martin, Velarde, Rodrigo, de Brito Sanchez, Maria Gabriela
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989156/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27534586
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep31809
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