Colonisation and competition dynamics can explain incomplete sterilisation parasitism in ant-plant symbioses

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1290-1298

  Tarnita, Corina E ^a,b   Palmer, Todd M ^b,c   Pringle, Robert M ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MPALA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant mutualisms; Castration parasites; Intermediate virulence; Reduced virulence; Sterilisation parasitism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ACACIA; ANIMAL; ANT; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; KENYA; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TREE;

ACACIA; ANIMALS; ANTS; KENYA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; REPRODUCTION; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

EID: 84908260148     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12336     Document Type: Article

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