A herbivorous mite down-regulates plant defence and produces web to exclude competitors

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Sarmento, Renato A ^a,b   Lemos, Felipe ^c   Dias, Cleide R ^c   Kikuchi, Wagner T ^a   Rodrigues, Jean C P ^a   Pallini, Angelo ^c   Sabelis, Maurice W ^b   Janssen, Arne ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO TOCANTINS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL PRODUCT; ARTICLE; COMPETITOR SPECIES; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; MITE; NONHUMAN; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT HERBIVORE INTERACTION; PLANT LEAF; POPULATION GROWTH; SPIDER; TETRANYCHUS EVANSI; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; TOMATO; WEB; ANIMAL; HERBIVORY; IMMUNOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; TETRANYCHIDAE;

ACARI; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; TETRANYCHIDAE; TETRANYCHUS EVANSI; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE;

ANIMALS; DOWN-REGULATION; HERBIVORY; LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM; MITES; PLANT LEAVES; PLANTS; POPULATION GROWTH; TETRANYCHIDAE;

EID: 80052017310     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023757     Document Type: Article

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