%0 Generic %A Bassetti, Niccolo %D 2023 %T Insect egg-killing: a new front on the evolutionary arms-race between brassicaceous plants and pierid butterflies %U https://data.4tu.nl/articles/dataset/Insect_egg-killing_a_new_front_on_the_evolutionary_arms-race_between_brassicaceous_plants_and_pierid_butterflies/20103536 %R 10.4121/20103536.v1 %K coevolution %K counter adaptation %K egg deposition %K brassica %K hypersensitive response cell death %K plant defences %K plant toxins %K specialist herbivores %X <p>A novel front-line of plant defence is the killing of herbivorous insect eggs with an HR reponse. We test whether this HR-based egg-killing plant trait has an evolutionary basis in the plant–insect arms-race. We studied the phylogenetic distribution of this trait, its egg-killing effect on and elicitation by butterflies, by screening 31 Brassicales species, and nine Pieridae species.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>This dataset is part of Chapter 2 of the PhD thesis "<a href="https://doi.org/10.18174/575127" target="_blank">E(gg)xit strategy of plant defense: Evolution and genetics of a butterfly egg-triggered cell death</a>"</p> %I 4TU.ResearchData