Myrmecochorous plants use chemical mimicry to cheat seed-dispersing ants

Functional Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 545-555

  Pfeiffer, Martin ^a   Huttenlocher, Heiko ^a   Ayasse, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ant plant interactions; Coevolution; Food deceptive species; Formicidae; Mimetic signals; Myrmecochory

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COEVOLUTION; DICOTYLEDON; FATTY ACID; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MIMICRY; MORPHOLOGY; MUTUALISM; MYRMECOCHORY; SEED DISPERSAL;

EUPHORBIA; FORMICA POLYCTENA; FORMICIDAE; HEPATICA; HEXAPODA; PUSCHKINIA; RANUNCULACEAE; VIOLA ODORATA; VIOLACEAE;

EID: 77955160017     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01661.x     Document Type: Article

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