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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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Public Library of Science
2010
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| 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 |