Insect egg-killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms-race between Brassicaceae plants and Pierid butterflies
E. Griese, L. Caarls, S. Mohammadin, N. Bassetti, G. Bukovinszkine Kiss, F. C. Breman, E. H. Poelman, R. Gols, M. E. Schranz, N. E. Fatouros
This study investigates the evolutionary basis of a plant trait that kills insect eggs in the Brassicaceae family and its elicitation by specialist Pierid butterflies.
bioRxiv · Nov 20, 2019Evolutionary Biology