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Differential Response of Herbivores to Plant Defence

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Co-Evolution of Secondary Metabolites

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Abstract

The differential response of insect herbivores to plant traits is one of the mechanisms promoting diversity and specificity of insect-plant interactions. The response differs mainly among generalist insects on the one hand and specialized or adapted insects on the other hand. While generalists are often strongly affected by toxic defences of their hosts, specialists have evolved various adaptations to overcome such defences. These adaptations include tolerance, detoxification, or sequestration of secondary metabolites of the host. In addition, behavioral adaptations help herbivores to avoid particularly potent defences. The response of herbivores is also tightly linked to their feeding mode (i.e., herbivore guild), physiology, metabolism, or size. The resulting specificity of interactions gives rise to diversification of host defences as no single trait can provide an efficient defence against diverse communities of insects. The diversification of host defences then seems to be one of the key factors promoting diversity of insects in a reciprocal way.

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I acknowledge funding by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. I thank the New Guinea Binatang Research Center for providing photos of New Guinean Lepidoptera, Tereza Holicová for help with preparing the illustrations for this chapter, and Conor Redmond, Carlo L. Seifert, and Tereza Holicová for providing valuable comments on the manuscript.

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Volf, M. (2018). Differential Response of Herbivores to Plant Defence. In: Merillon, JM., Ramawat, K. (eds) Co-Evolution of Secondary Metabolites. Reference Series in Phytochemistry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76887-8_38-1

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