Floral feeding increases diet breadth in a polyphagous mirid

Herbivorous insect species vary significantly in the number of host plant taxa they attack. Previous studies suggested host range expansion to be more likely to occur in herbivores whose immatures feed on flowers due to flowers containing lower levels of plant defense compounds than vegetative tissu...

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Main Authors: Pan, Hongsheng, Tena, Alejandro, Xiu, Chunli, Liu, Bing, Lu, Yanhui, Desneux, Nicolas
Format: article
Language:Inglés
Published: Springer 2019
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11939/6252
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10340-019-01118-4

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