Macaranga ant-plants hide food from intruders: Correlation of food presentation and presence of wax barriers analysed using phylogenetically independent contrasts

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 177-193

  Federle, Walter ^a   Rheindt, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Ant competition; Biotic defence; Coevolution; Comparative method; Epicuticular wax; Extrafloral nectaries; Mutualism; Myrmecophyte

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; PLANT DEFENSE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; WAX;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MACARANGA;

EID: 13644249213     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.000423.x     Document Type: Article

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