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No evidence of a cleaning mutualism between burying beetles and their phoretic mites

Burying beetles (Nicrophorus vespilloides) breed on small vertebrate carcasses, which they shave and smear with antimicrobial exudates. Producing antimicrobials imposes a fitness cost on burying beetles, which rises with the potency of the antimicrobial defence. Burying beetles also carry phoretic m...

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Библиографические подробности
Опубликовано в: :Sci Rep
Главные авторы: Duarte, Ana, Cotter, Sheena C., De Gasperin, Ornela, Houslay, Thomas M., Boncoraglio, Giuseppe, Welch, Martin, Kilner, Rebecca M.
Формат: Artigo
Язык:Inglês
Опубликовано: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Online-ссылка:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5653765/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29062089
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-14201-6
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