The gut bacterial community affects immunity but not metabolism in a specialist herbivorous butterfly
Abstract Plant tissues often lack essential nutritive elements and may contain a range of secondary toxic compounds. As nutritional imbalance in food intake may affect the performances of herbivores, the latter have evolved a variety of physiological mechanisms to cope with the challenges of digesti...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2020-08-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6573 |