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SUBMITTER: Khudr MS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5550486 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Khudr Mouhammad Shadi MS Buzhdygan Oksana Y OY Petermann Jana S JS Wurst Susanne S
Scientific reports 20170809 1
Fear of predation has been shown to affect prey fitness and behaviour, however, to date little is known about the underlying genetics of responses to predator-associated risk. In an effort to fill this gap we exposed four naïve clones of green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), maintained on the model crop Brassica oleracea, to different types of cues from aphid lion (Chrysoperla carnea). The respective predation risks, we termed Fear Factors, were either lethal (consumption by predator), or non-leth ...[more]