A free lunch? No cost for acquiring defensive plant pyrrolizidine alkaloids in a specialist arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 6152-6162

  Cogni, Rodrigo ^a,c   Trigo, José R ^b   Futuyma, Douglas J ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation; arms races; co evolution; fitness costs; plant herbivore interaction; specialization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870923733     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12086     Document Type: Article

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