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Predator percolation, insect outbreaks, and phase polyphenism.

Current biology : CB - 13 Jan 2009

Reynolds Andy M, Sword Gregory A, Simpson Stephen J, Reynolds Don R

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Apart from being notorious outbreak pests, locusts are of interest because of their expression of density-dependent "phase polyphenism." In this remarkable form of phenotypic plasticity, changes in local population density generate distinct solitarious and gregarious phases that differ in behavior, physiology, and appearance. A hallmark of phase polyphenism in outbreak species is the transition from solitary...

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PMID: 19097898
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.10.070

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