Behavioural correlates of phenotypic plasticity in mouthpart chemoreceptor numbers in locusts.

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Rearing locusts in an impoverished chemosensory environment leads to fewer chemoreceptors developing on the mouthparts and antennae as adults but the behavioural relevance of these changes remains unknown. To address this question, locusts were reared for the final two larval stadia on either a single, nutritionally near-optimal synthetic food ('plain' pretreatment), or a diet comprising two nutritionally...

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