Arboreal Ants Use the “Velcro® Principle” to Capture Very Large Prey

Plant-ants live in a mutualistic association with host plants known as “myrmecophytes” that provide them with a nesting place and sometimes with extra-floral nectar (EFN) and/or food bodies (FBs); the ants can also attend sap-sucking Hemiptera for their honeydew. In return, plant-ants, like most oth...

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Autores principales: Dejean, Alain, Leroy, Céline, Corbara, Bruno, Roux, Olivier, Céréghino, Régis, Orivel, Jérôme, Boulay, Raphaël
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20593032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011331

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20593032
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011331

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