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Baronia brevicornis caterpillars build shelters to avoid predation

  • 1. Departamento de Biología, División de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas, Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico;
  • 2. Departamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Conservación (CIByC), Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico;
  • 3. Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle (EcoLab), UMR 5245, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France;
  • 4. Ecuela Nacional de Estudios Superiores Unidad Morelia, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico

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Covarrubias-Camarillo, T., Osorio-Beristain, M., Legal, L., Contreras-Garduño, J. (2016): Baronia brevicornis caterpillars build shelters to avoid predation. Journal of Natural History 50: 2299-2310, DOI: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1193640, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1193640

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