Self-Medication as Adaptive Plasticity: Increased Ingestion of Plant Toxins by Parasitized Caterpillars

Michael S. Singer; Kevi C. Mace; Elizabeth A. Bernays

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004796

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Self-Medication as Adaptive Plasticity: Increased Ingestion of Plant Toxins by Parasitized Caterpillars

Michael S. Singer ,

* E-mail: msinger@wesleyan.edu

Affiliation Department of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
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Kevi C. Mace,

Affiliation Department of Biology, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, United States of America
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Elizabeth A. Bernays

Affiliation Department of Entomology, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
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Self-Medication as Adaptive Plasticity: Increased Ingestion of Plant Toxins by Parasitized Caterpillars

Michael S. Singer,
Kevi C. Mace,
Elizabeth A. Bernays

Published: March 10, 2009
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0004796

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