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SUBMITTER: Fatouros NE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4100524 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fatouros Nina E NE Pineda Ana A Huigens Martinus E ME Broekgaarden Colette C Shimwela Methew M MM Figueroa Candia Ilich A IA Verbaarschot Patrick P Bukovinszky Tibor T
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20140801 1789
Evolutionary theory of plant defences against herbivores predicts a trade-off between direct (anti-herbivore traits) and indirect defences (attraction of carnivores) when carnivore fitness is reduced. Such a trade-off is expected in plant species that kill herbivore eggs by exhibiting a hypersensitive response (HR)-like necrosis, which should then negatively affect carnivores. We used the black mustard (Brassica nigra) to investigate how this potentially lethal direct trait affects preferences a ...[more]