Diet influences resource allocation in chemical defence but not melanin synthesis in an aposematic moth
C. Ottocento, B. Rojas, E. Burdfield-Steel, M. Furlanetto, O. Nokelainen, S. Winters, J. Mappes
The paper tests how larval diet affects chemical defence and melanin synthesis in moths, finding resource trade-offs in defences but not in melanin.
bioRxiv · Feb 24, 2023Ecology