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Do well-integrated species of an inquiline community have a lower brood predation tendency? A test using red wood ant myrmecophiles

BACKGROUND: A host infected with multiple parasitic species provides a unique system to test evolutionary and ecological hypotheses. Different parasitic species associated with a single host are expected to occupy different niches. This niche specialization can evolve from intraguild competition amo...

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Autores principales: Parmentier, Thomas, Dekoninck, Wouter, Wenseleers, Tom
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4717668/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26781178
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0583-6

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