When David and Goliath share a home: Compound nesting of Pyramica and Platythyrea ants

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 435-438

  Yeo K ^a,b   Molet, M ^a   Peeters, C ^a  

^a UPMC University Paris 06   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Commensalism; Dacetini; Platythyrea conradti; Pyramica maynei; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANT; COMMENSALISM; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHYLOGENETICS;

DACETINI; FORMICIDAE; MYRMICINAE; PLATYTHYREA; PLATYTHYREA CONRADTI; PONERINAE; PYRAMICA; PYRAMICA MAYNEI;

EID: 33845709913     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-005-0890-9     Document Type: Article

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