Fear of predation alters clone-specific performance in phloem-feeding prey

Abstract Fear of predation has been shown to affect prey fitness and behaviour, however, to date little is known about the underlying genetics of responses to predator-associated risk. In an effort to fill this gap we exposed four naïve clones of green peach aphid (Myzus persicae), maintained on the...

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Main Authors: Mouhammad Shadi Khudr, Oksana Y. Buzhdygan, Jana S. Petermann, Susanne Wurst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-07723-6