Preference, performance, and chemical defense in an endangered butterfly using novel and ancestral host plants

Abstract Adoption of novel host plants by herbivorous insects can require new adaptations and may entail loss of adaptation to ancestral hosts. We examined relationships between an endangered subspecies of the butterfly Euphydryas editha (Taylor’s checkerspot) and three host plant species. Two of th...

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Autores principales: Nathan L. Haan, M. Deane Bowers, Jonathan D. Bakker
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://doaj.org/article/478b804bf3634f4389515c31932ee40f
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