Specialists make faster decisions than generalists: Experiments with aphids

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1415, 1999, Pages 151-156

  Bernays, Elizabeth A ^a   Funk, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Diet breadth; Herbivory; Host plant discrimination; Neural constraints; Uroleucon ambrosiae

Indexed keywords

APHID; DIET; HERBIVORY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; EVOLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS; INSECT; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

AMBROSIA TRIFIDA; ANIMALIA; APHIDIDAE; ASTERACEAE; HEMIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HOMOPTERA; INSECTA; UROLEUCON AMBROSIAE;

EID: 0033593403     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0615     Document Type: Article

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