Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: Ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protect Acacia food bodies from exploitation

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 4087-4100

  Orona Tamayo, Domancar ^a,b   Wielsch, Natalie ^c   Blanco Labra, Alejandro ^a   Svatos, Ales ^c   Farías Rodríguez, Rodolfo ^b   Heil, Martin ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE INGENIERÍA GENÉTICA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD MICHOACANA DE SAN NICOLÁS DE HIDALGO   (Mexico)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

ant plant interaction; co evolution; exploiter; indirect defence; peptidase inhibitor; protein digestion

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; COLEOPTERA; FORMICIDAE; PROSTEPHANUS TRUNCATUS; PSEUDOMYRMEX FERRUGINEUS; PSEUDOMYRMEX GRACILIS; ZABROTES SUBFASCIATUS;

CHYMOTRYPSIN; PEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

ACACIA; ANIMAL; ANT; ANT-PLANT INTERACTION; ARTICLE; CO-EVOLUTION; DIGESTION; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXPLOITER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; INDIRECT DEFENCE; LARVA; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DIGESTION; SYMBIOSIS;

ANT-PLANT INTERACTION; CO-EVOLUTION; EXPLOITER; INDIRECT DEFENCE; PEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN DIGESTION;

ACACIA; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHYMOTRYPSIN; DIGESTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; LARVA; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84880808140     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.12320     Document Type: Article

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