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ArticleEcology and evolution2026

Chemical Secretion Use Varies Among Species but Lacks a Straightforward Relationship With Other Defenses in Neotropical Opiliones.

Marilia Freire, Noah Skelly, Sejal V Prachand, Ignacio Escalante

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Article in Ecology and evolution, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Marilia FreireDepartment of Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago Illinois USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8670-1921
Noah SkellyDepartment of Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago Illinois USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8739-4706
Sejal V PrachandDepartment of Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago Illinois USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8648-9242
Ignacio EscalanteDepartment of Biological Sciences University of Illinois Chicago Illinois USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1919-4303

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chemical secretion deployment is a widespread defensive strategy in arthropods, typically aimed at surviving encounters with predators. However, the ecological forces shaping variation in its use across species remain unclear. We quantified chemical secretion behavior in 11 sympatric species of

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chemical secretionsgroup livingmixed‐species aggregationNeotropical arthropodsPrionostemma

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PMID42473642
PMCPMC13381067

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