Discovery of a monophagous true predator, a specialist termite-eating spider (Araneae: Ammoxenidae)

• Autoři: PETRÁKOVÁ Lenka; LÍZNAROVÁ Eva; PEKÁR Stanislav; HADDAD Charles; SENTENSKÁ Lenka; SYMONDSON William
• Rok publikování: 2015
• Druh: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Časopis / Zdroj: Scientific Reports
• Fakulta / Pracoviště MU: Přírodovědecká fakulta
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14013
• Obor: Zoologie
• Klíčová slova: PREY; DNA; DIETARY; ZODARIIDAE; EVOLUTION; PCR; SALTICIDAE; SEQUENCES; CAPTURE; PRIMERS
• Popis: True predators are characterised by capturing a number of prey items during their lifetime and by being generalists. Some true predators are facultative specialists, but very few species are stenophagous specialists that catch only a few closely related prey types. A monophagous true predator that would exploit a single prey species has not been discovered yet. Representatives of the spider family Ammoxenidae have been reported to have evolved to only catch termites.

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