Toxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects

Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant is learned by wild birds, to the point that a...

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Autor principal:	Luke R. Grinham
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Biology (General) QH301-705.5
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:40352ed1650b4cd5a6ba5cba52dd46de2021-11-21T12:08:30ZToxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects10.1038/s42003-021-02830-72399-3642https://doaj.org/article/40352ed1650b4cd5a6ba5cba52dd46de2021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02830-7https://doaj.org/toc/2399-3642Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant is learned by wild birds, to the point that any insect on the plant faces a lower predation risk.Luke R. GrinhamNature PortfolioarticleBiology (General)QH301-705.5ENCommunications Biology, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-1 (2021)
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description	Aposematism is a prey strategy to communicate toxicity or danger to predators, often through bright colours, and over time is learned by predators. McLellan et al. report in Current Biology that association between an aposematic insect and its host plant is learned by wild birds, to the point that any insect on the plant faces a lower predation risk.
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Toxic plants act as indiscriminate protectors of insects

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