Ant attendance changes the sugar composition of the honeydew of the drepanosiphid aphid Tuberculatus quercicola

Oecologia

Volumn 128, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 36-43

  Yao, Izumi ^a   Akimoto, Shin Ichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aphid ant mutualism; Behavioral plasticity; Carbohydrate metabolism; Phloem sap; Quercus dentata

Indexed keywords

ANT; APHID; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MUTUALISM; SUGAR;

APHIDIDAE; ARTHROPODA; DREPANOSIPHIDAE; FORMICA YESSENSIS; FORMICIDAE; HEMIPTERA; HYMENOPTERA; INVERTEBRATA; QUERCUS; QUERCUS DENTATA; TUBERCULATUS QUERCICOLA;

EID: 0034941362     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004420100633     Document Type: Article

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