Plant lock and ant key: Pairwise coevolution of an exclusion filter in an ant-plant mutualism

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1481, 2001, Pages 2131-2141

  Brouat, C ^a   Garcia, N ^a   Andary, C ^a   McKey, D ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Ant plant interaction; Coevolution; Mutualism; Myrmecophytism; Prostoma

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; COEVOLUTION; MORPHOMETRY; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FILTER; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; LEONARDOXA;

EID: 0035934837     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1763     Document Type: Article

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