Self-medication as adaptive plasticity: Increased ingestion of plant toxins by parasitized caterpillars

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Singer, Michael S ^a   Mace, Kevi C ^a   Bernays, Elizabeth A ^b  

^a WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOID; TOXIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; CATERPILLAR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOPARASITE; FLY; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; SELF MEDICATION; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; LARVA; MOTH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT;

ANIMALIA; ARCTIIDAE; GRAMMIA; LEPIDOPTERA; PRIMATES; PYRRHARCTIA ISABELLA; TACHINIDAE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LARVA; MOTHS; PLANTS; PYRROLIZIDINE ALKALOIDS; SELF MEDICATION; TOXINS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 62849124340     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004796     Document Type: Article

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