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SUBMITTER: Kiedrowicz A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5478656 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kiedrowicz Agnieszka A Kuczyński Lechosław L Lewandowski Mariusz M Proctor Heather H Skoracka Anna A
Scientific reports 20170620 1
Passively dispersing organisms should optimise the time and direction of dispersal by employing behaviours that increase their probability of being successfully transported by dispersal agents. We rigorously tested whether two agriculturally important passively-dispersing eriophyoid species, wheat curl mite (WCM) and cereal rust mite (CRM), display behaviours indicating their readiness to depart from current host plants in the presence of potential dispersal cues: wind, an insect vector and pres ...[more]