Pill bug feeding assay (VIDEO)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

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Hungry pill bugs were placed in a petri dish containing liverworts with no or over-generated oil bodies, and compared their herbivory. The liverworts without the oil body were eaten by pill bugs, but the liverworts with an increased number of oil bodies were not, indicating that the oil bodies have a function for protection against herbivores including arthropods.

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Takehiko Kanazawa, NIBB

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