The plant metabolome guides fitness-relevant foraging decisions of a specialist herbivore

• Ricardo A. R. Machado ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ricardo.machado@unine.ch (RARM); matthias.erb@ips.unibe.ch (ME)

  Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Biology, University of Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7624-1105

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• Vanitha Theepan,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Christelle A. M. Robert,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3415-2371

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• Tobias Züst,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Lingfei Hu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland, Institute of Soil and Water Resources and Environmental Science, College of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Agricultural Resources and Environment, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7791-9440

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• Qi Su,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

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• Bernardus C. J. Schimmel,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9345-7883

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• Matthias Erb

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ricardo.machado@unine.ch (RARM); matthias.erb@ips.unibe.ch (ME)

  Affiliation Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4446-9834

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