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Vein-cutting behavior: insect counterploy to the latex defense of plants.

Abstract

Many mandibulate insects that feed on milkweeds, or other latex-producing plants, cut leaf veins before feeding distal to the cuts. Vein cutting blocks latex flow to intended feeding sites and can be viewed as an insect counteradaptation to the plant's defensive secretion. Experimental vein severance renders milkweed leaves edible to generalist herbivores that do not show vein-cutting behaviors and ordinarily ignore milkweeds in nature.

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Year: 1987 PMID： 3616620 DOI： 10.1126/science.3616620

Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728

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Vein-cutting behavior: insect counterploy to the latex defense of plants.

1. Defensive use of a fecal thatch by a beetle larva (Hemisphaerota cyanea).

2. Positive and negative effects of leaf shelters on herbivorous insects: linking multiple herbivore species on a willow.

3. Aggregative feeding of pipevine swallowtail larvae enhances hostplant suitability.

4. Comparative study of gene expression and major proteins' function of laticifers in lignified and unlignified organs of mulberry.

5. Mulberry latex rich in antidiabetic sugar-mimic alkaloids forces dieting on caterpillars.

6. Phylogenetic escalation and decline of plant defense strategies.

7. Enzymic adaptations in leaf-feeding insects to host-plant allelochemicals.

8. Evidence for adaptive radiation from a phylogenetic study of plant defenses.

9. Circumvention of prey defense by a predator: ant lion vs. ant.

10. Induced responses to herbivory and jasmonate in three milkweed species.