Assembling a mutualism: Ant symbionts locate their host plants by detecting volatile chemicals

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 172-176

  Edwards, D P ^a   Hassall, M ^a   Sutherland, W J ^a   Yu, D W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ant plant; Biological signalling; Horizontal transmission; Myrmecophyte; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANT; ATTRACTANT; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; HOST PLANT; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOPHYTE; QUEEN; SEED DISPERSAL; SYMBIOSIS; VOLATILE SUBSTANCE;

ALLOMERUS; AZTECA; BORAGINACEAE; CORDIA; CORDIA NODOSA; DOLICHODERINAE; FORMICIDAE; MYRMICINAE;

EID: 33745118329     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-006-0855-z     Document Type: Article

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