Self‐medication in insects: current evidence and future perspectives

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Ecological Entomology

• Publication date

  2014-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/een.12110
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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