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FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
卷 7, 期 3, 页码 130-134出版社
ECOLOGICAL SOC AMER
DOI: 10.1890/070189
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- US National Institutes of Health
- US National Science Foundation
- US Department of Agriculture through the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups Program [1U01 TW01021-01, 1U01 TW006634-01]
- Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) PGS-A Fellowship
- Levinson Fellowship
We examined Coleoptera and Lepidoptera assemblages feeding on two different groups of plants: one in which plants were active against cancer cell lines and/or protozoan parasites responsible for tropical parasitic diseases, and a second group that was inactive in the same bioassays. Aposematic species were found on nine of the ten active plant species, but on only four of the ten inactive plant species. Non-aposematic insects did not show a significant difference in their association with active versus inactive plants. Our results suggest that the presence of aposematic, herbivorous insects can be used to facilitate the identification of plants with compounds active against important human diseases.
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