Specialists make faster decisions than generalists: experiments with aphids
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Specialists make faster decisions than generalists: experiments with aphids
Theoretical studies and a few recent experimental reports suggest that the evolution of diet breadth in herbivorous insects is constrained by a limited neural ability to e¤ciently process large amounts of information in short periods of time. This neural-constraints hypothesis predicts that generalist herbivores should make slower or poorer decisions than specialists when selecting plants, beca...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0615