Caste-specific symbiont policing by workers of Acromyrmex fungus-growing ants

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 378-384

  Ivens, Aniek B F ^a,b   Nash, David R ^a   Poulsen, Michael ^c   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolutionary stability; Leaf cutting ants; Mutualism; Symbiont policing

Indexed keywords

ANT; COEVOLUTION; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; FUNGUS; INVASIVE SPECIES; MUTUALISM; SEXUAL CONFLICT; SYMBIONT; WORKER CASTE;

ACROMYRMEX; ACROMYRMEX ECHINATIOR; ATTA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

EID: 64949121876     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arn150     Document Type: Article

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