What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: the burdens and benefits of toxin sequestration in a milkweed aphid Tobias Züst, Sophie Mou, and Anurag A. Agrawal Functional Ecology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aphid growth data - column description Species: Host plant species on which Aphis nerii was reared. Cur = Asclepias curassavica, Inc = Asclepias incarnata, Per = Asclepias perennis, Pul = Asclepias pulchra Plant: Number of replicate plant within plant species and treatment Treatment: Predator treatment C = Control, P = Predator. Aphid populations in the predator treatment received an adult ladybug predator (Coccinella septempunctata) between census 3 and 4. Juvenile: Number of subadult aphids Unwinged: Number of adult, unwinged aphids Winged: Number of adult, winged aphids Date: Calender date of aphid census (M/DD/YYY) Census: Census number (1-5) Age: Time since aphid introduction, calculated as the difference between the census date and the introduction date (9/15/2014)