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caterpillar

Known as: caterpillars 
 
National Institutes of Health

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2016
2016
The urticating apparatus in the caterpillar of Lonomia obliqua (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae).
The presence of specialized cells for venom production in the Lonomia obliqua caterpillar has long been a controversial topic. In… Expand
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2015
2015
Body size affects the evolution of eyespots in caterpillars
Significance Eyespots are a widespread form of antipredator defense that have long captured the imagination of evolutionary… Expand
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2014
Highly Cited
2014
Artificial light at night causes diapause inhibition and sex-specific life history changes in a moth
Rapidly increasing levels of light pollution subject nocturnal organisms to major alterations of their habitat, the ecological… Expand
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2013
2013
Allocation of cysteine for glutathione production in caterpillars with different antioxidant defense strategies: a comparison of Lymantria dispar and Malacosoma disstria.
Sulfur amino acids [cysteine (Cys) and methionine (Met)] play two major roles during animal development: protein synthesis for… Expand
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2010
2010
Electrophysiological and Behavioral Responses of Microplitis mediator (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) to Caterpillar-Induced Volatiles from Cotton
ABSTRACT Microplitis mediator Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) is an important larval endoparasitoid of various lepidopteran… Expand
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2006
Highly Cited
2006
Priming by airborne signals boosts direct and indirect resistance in maize.
Plants counteract attack by herbivorous insects using a variety of inducible defence mechanisms. The production of toxic proteins… Expand
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2004
2004
A comparison of three sampling techniques to estimate the population size of caterpillars in trees
Three sampling techniques commonly used to estimate the population size of caterpillars and sawfly larvae in trees (branch… Expand
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2001
Highly Cited
2001
Experimental evidence that plants under caterpillar attack may benefit from attracting parasitoids
Herbivore-induced plant volatiles have been suggested to function as indirect defence signals that attract natural enemies of… Expand
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1998
1998
Caterpillar abundance in the territory affects the breeding performance of great tit Parus major minor
Abstract The effects of caterpillar food supply on the breeding performance of a population of the Japanese great tit Parus major… Expand
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1998
1998
Is the small clutch size of a Corsican blue tit population optimal?
Abstract In an attempt to test predictions of the optimisation hypothesis of life history traits in birds, we estimated fitness… Expand
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