Pyrazine odour makes visually conspicuous prey aversive.
Unpalatable insects frequently adopt multimodal signals to ward off predators, incorporating sounds and odours into their colourful displays. Pyrazine is an odour commonly used in insect warning displays, and has previously been shown to elicit unlearned biases against common warning colours, e.g. y...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2001
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