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The role of toxic nectar secondary compounds in driving differential bumble bee preferences for milkweed flowers

Villalona E, Ezray BD, Laveaga E and others. Oecologia, July 2020.

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BombusSpecializationDetoxificationCardiac GlycosidesNiche partitioningPlant–pollinator InteractionsAsclepias

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