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ArticleBiology letters2020

Heliconiini butterflies can learn time-dependent reward associations.

M Wyatt Toure, Fletcher J Young, W Owen McMillan, Stephen H Montgomery

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Article in Biology letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

M Wyatt ToureDepartment of Biology, McGill University, 1205 Docteur Penfield, Montreal, Canada H3A 1B1.
Fletcher J YoungSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama.
W Owen McMillanSmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama.
Stephen H MontgomerySmithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Gamboa, Panama.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

For many pollinators, flowers provide predictable temporal schedules of resource availability, meaning an ability to learn time-dependent information could be widely beneficial. However, this ability has only been demonstrated in a handful of species. Observations of

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ButterfliesAnimalsColorLearningPollenRewardcircadian memorycognitive ecologycontextual learningLepidoptera

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PMID32961092
PMCPMC7532716

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