Higher plasticity in feeding preference of a generalist than a specialist: experiments with two closely related Helicoverpa species

Herbivorous insects have been categorized as generalists or specialists depending on the taxonomic relatedness of the plants they use as food or oviposition substrates. The plasticity in host plant selection behavior of species belonging to the two categories received little attention. In the presen...

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Published in:Sci Rep
Main Authors: Wang, Yan, Ma, Ying, Zhou, Dong-Sheng, Gao, Su-Xia, Zhao, Xin-Cheng, Tang, Qing-Bo, Wang, Chen-Zhu, van Loon, Joop J. A.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5736596/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29259307
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-18244-7
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