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ArticleBiology letters2025

Arms race of physical defences: hooked trichomes of

Ritabrata Chowdhury, T Ulmar Grafe, Faizah Metali, Walter Federle

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 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.

Ritabrata ChowdhuryDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5941-1582
T Ulmar GrafeFaculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei-Muara District, Brunei Darussalam.
Faizah MetaliFaculty of Science, Universiti Brunei Darussalam, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei-Muara District, Brunei Darussalam.
Walter FederleDepartment of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6375-3005

Funding

British Entomological and Natural History SocietyUniversity of CambridgeUniversity of Oxford
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The coevolution of insects and chemical plant defences has been described as an arms race, but it is unclear whether physical plant defences can produce similar outcomes. Here, we report a previously unknown interaction from the mutualism between ants and

Indexed as

AntsButterfliesSymbiosisTrichomesAnimalsHerbivoryLarvaMyrmecophytesPlant Leavesarms racecounter-adaptationlycaenidsMacaranga ant-plantsphysical defencetrichomes

Identifiers

PMID40476537
PMCPMC12142895

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