Toxicity and taste: unequal chemical defences in a mimicry ring. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2018 Mimicry of warning signals is common, and can be mutualistic when mimetic species harbour equal levels of defence (Müllerian), or parasitic when mimics are undefended but still gain protection from their resemblance to the model (Batesian). However, whether chemically defended mimics should be similar in terms of toxicity (i.e.
Winters AE +8 more
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Leaf chemical defences and insect herbivory in oak: accounting for canopy position unravels marked genetic relatedness effects. [PDF]
Ann Bot, 2020 *Background and Aims Highly controlled experiments document that plant genetic diversity and relatedness can shape herbivore communities and patterns of herbivory. Evidence from the field is, however. scarce and inconsistent.
Valdés-Correcher E +6 more
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Inducible chemical defences in animals [PDF]
Oikos, 2014 Phenotypic plasticity is extremely widespread in the behaviour, morphology and life‐history of animals. However, inducible changes in the production of defensive chemicals are described mostly in plants and surprisingly little is known about similar plasticity in chemical defences of animals. Inducible chemical defences may be common in animals because
Hettyey, Attila +2 more
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How to fight multiple enemies: target-specific chemical defences in an aposematic moth. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2017 Animals have evolved different defensive strategies to survive predation, among which chemical defences are particularly widespread and diverse. Here we investigate the function of chemical defence diversity, hypothesizing that such diversity has evolved
Rojas B +6 more
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Specificity in Mesograzer-Induced Defences in Seagrasses. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Grazing-induced plant defences that reduce palatability to herbivores are widespread in terrestrial plants and seaweeds, but they have not yet been reported in seagrasses. We investigated the ability of two seagrass species to induce defences in response
Begoña Martínez-Crego +5 more
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Forest Systems, 2020 Aim of study: to assess whether constitutive levels of total phenols and condensed tannins acting as chemical defences in Quercus ilex vary across regions, populations and genotypes.
Manuela Rodríguez-Romero +2 more
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Deterrent activities in the crude lipophilic fractions of Antarctic benthic organisms: chemical defences against keystone predators [PDF]
Polar Research, 2014 Generalist predation constitutes a driving force for the evolution of chemical defences. In the Antarctic benthos, asteroids and omnivore amphipods are keystone opportunistic predators.
Laura Núñez-Pons, Conxita Avila
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Anti-predatory chemical defences in Antarctic benthic fauna [PDF]
Marine Biology, 2015 SI
Moles, J. +5 more
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Chemical antipredator defence is linked to higher extinction risk [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2016 Many attributes of species may be linked to contemporary extinction risk, though some such traits remain untested despite suggestions that they may be important.
Kevin Arbuckle
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Chemical defences indicate bold colour patterns with reduced variability in aposematic nudibranchs. [PDF]
Proc Biol SciThe selective factors that shape phenotypic diversity in prey communities with aposematic animals are diverse and coincide with similar diversity in the strength of underlying secondary defences.
van den Berg CP +7 more
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