Main nutrient compounds in food bodies of Mexican Acacia ant-plants

Chemoecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 45-52

  Heil, Martin ^a   Baumann, Birgit ^b   Krüger, Ralf ^a   Linsenmair, K Eduard ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acacia chiapensis; Acacia collinsii; Acacia cornigera; Acacia globulifera; Acacia hindsii; Ant plant interaction; Indirect defence; Mutualism; Myrmecophytism; Pseudomyrmex; Swollen thorn acacias

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ACACIA CORNIGERA; ACACIA HINDSII; ANIMALIA; FABACEAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; INSECTA; INVERTEBRATA; MACARANGA; PIPERACEAE; PSEUDOMYRMEX;

EID: 0842309125     PISSN: 09377409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00049-003-0257-x     Document Type: Article

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