🔴New paper🔴Costs of toxin ingestion versus costs of sequestration in a community of specialized herbivores
Herbivore specialists with shared adaptations show minimal costs of ingestion but similar costs of sequestration
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doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
Abstract. When multiple insect herbivores specialize on well-defended plants, they often show convergent adaptations to a class of phytochemical defences.
