Immune modulation enables a specialist insect to benefit from antibacterial withanolides in its host plant

Autor: Andrea Barthel, Heiko Vogel, Yannick Pauchet, Gerhard Pauls, Grit Kunert, Astrid T. Groot, Wilhelm Boland, David G. Heckel, Hanna M. Heidel-Fischer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 7, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12530
Popis: Certain plants in the nightshade family contain withanolides, defensive chemicals known to be harmful to most insect herbivores. Here, Barthel et al. show that a moth species that is a specialist herbivore of these plants benefits from the compounds by gaining increased immunity to a pathogen.
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