When defense backfires: Detrimental effect of a plant's protective trichomes on an insect beneficial to the plant

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 4410-4414

  Eisner, Thomas ^a   Eisner, Maria ^a   Hoebeke, E Richard ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphididae; Coccinellidae; Evolutionary benefit; Evolutionary cost; Mentzelia pumila

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BEETLE; EVOLUTION; PLANT LEAF; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; APHIDS; BEETLES; EPIDERMIS; PLANT LEAVES; PLANT STEMS; PLANTS;

ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; COCCINELLIDAE; COLEOPTERA; HEXAPODA; HIPPODAMIA CONVERGENS; INSECTA; LOASACEAE; MACROSIPHUM; MACROSIPHUM MENTZELIAE; MENTZELIA PUMILA;

EID: 0032516005     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.8.4410     Document Type: Article

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