Allomerus
National Institutes of Health
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Insect fungiculture is practiced by ants, termites, beetles, and gall midges and it has been suggested to be widespread among…
Ant–fungus associations are well known from attine ants, whose nutrition is based on a symbiosis with basidiomycete fungi…
The benefits obtained by an organism when involved in a mutualistic interaction vary depending on environmental factors, as well…
The interaction between Allomerus plant-ants and an ascomycete fungus growing on and strengthening their galleries is not…
Fungus-growing attine ants use natural-product antibiotics produced by mutualist actinobacteria as ‘weedkillers’ in their fungal…
The evolutionary stability of mutualism is thought to depend on how well the fitness interests of partners are aligned. Because…
A key challenge in the study of inter-specific cooperation, or mutualisms, is to understand the mechanisms that prevent cheating…
The dynamics of mutualistic interactions involving more than a single pair of species depend on the relative costs and benefits…
Abstract. We studied the relationship between Hirtella myrmecophila (Chrysobalanaceae), a common but little-studied Amazonian ant…