ArticleOecologia2015
Costs and benefits of plant allelochemicals in herbivore diet in a multi enemy world.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analytic evidence for quantitative honesty in aposematic signals.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2021Pooled it
- Sexual differences in defensive strategies: investigating chemical defences and visual signals in a wasp mothRoyal Society open science · 2025Article
- Chemical defences indicate bold colour patterns with reduced variability in aposematic nudibranchs.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Exotic predators can sequester and use novel toxins from exotic non-coevolved prey.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Antioxidant availability trades off with warning signals and toxin sequestration in the large milkweed bug (Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Complex plant quality-microbiota-population interactions modulate the response of a specialist herbivore to the defence of its host plant.Functional ecology · 2022Article
- Condition dependence in biosynthesized chemical defenses of an aposematic and mimeticEcology and evolution · 2022Article
- Dietary cardenolides enhance growth and change the direction of the fecundity-longevity trade-off in milkweed bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae).Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Evolutionary and ecological processes influencing chemical defense variation in an aposematic and mimeticPeerJ · 2021Article
- Trait Variation in Moths Mirrors Small-Scaled Ecological Gradients in A Tropical Forest Landscape.Insects · 2020Article
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- Antipredator strategies of pupae: how to avoid predation in an immobile life stage?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Plant and herbivore ontogeny interact to shape the preference, performance and chemical defense of a specialist herbivore.Oecologia · 2018Article
- Iridoids and Other Monoterpenes in the Alzheimer's Brain: Recent Development and Future Prospects.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Review
- How to fight multiple enemies: target-specific chemical defences in an aposematic moth.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2017Article
- Maternal care shapes an aposematic display and provides lifelong protection against predators.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Defense against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic mothBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Sequestration of plant defensive chemicals by herbivorous insects is a way of defending themselves against their natural enemies. Such herbivores have repeatedly evolved bright colours to advertise their unpalatability to predators, i.e. they are aposematic. This often comes with a cost. In this study, we examined the costs and benefits of sequestration of iridoid glycosides (IGs) by the generalist aposematic herbivore, the wood tiger moth, Parasemia plantaginis. We also asked whether the defence against one enemy (a predator) is also effective against another (a parasitoid). We found that the larvae excrete most of the IGs and only small amounts are found in the larvae. Nevertheless, the amounts present in the larvae are sufficient to deter ant predators and also play a role in defence against parasitoids. However, excreting and handling these defensive plant compounds is costly, leading to longer development time and lower pupal mass. Interestingly, the warning signal efficiency and the amount of IGs in the larvae of P. plantaginis are negatively correlated; larvae with less efficient warning signals contain higher levels of chemical defence compounds. Our results may imply that there is a trade-off between production and maintenance of coloration and chemical defence. Although feeding on a diet containing IGs can have life-history costs, it offers multiple benefits in the defence against predators and parasitoids.
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