Targeted plant defense: silicon conserves hormonal defense signaling impacting chewing but not fluid-feeding herbivores.
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DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3250
Abstract: Plants deploy an arsenal of chemical and physical defenses against arthropod herbivores, but it may be most cost efficient to produce these only when attacked. Herbivory activates complex signaling pathways involving several phytohormones, including jasmonic… read more here.
Keywords: plant; defense; fluid feeding; silicon ... See more keywords
Mouthpart conduit sizes of fluid-feeding insects determine the ability to feed from pores
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DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2016.2026
Abstract: Fluid-feeding insects, such as butterflies, moths and flies (20% of all animal species), are faced with the common selection pressure of having to remove and feed on trace amounts of fluids from porous surfaces. Insects… read more here.
Keywords: insects; feeding insects; fluid feeding; ability feed ... See more keywords
A previously unknown feeding mode in millipedes and the convergence of fluid feeding across arthropods
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DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abm0577
Abstract: We report fluid feeding with a sucking pump in the arthropod class Diplopoda, using a combination of synchrotron tomography, histology, electron microscopy, and three-dimensional reconstructions. Within the head of nine species of the enigmatic Colobognatha,… read more here.
Keywords: insects; fluid feeding; fluid; feeding mode ... See more keywords