Skeletomuscular adaptations of head and legs of Melissotarsus ants for tunnelling through living wood

BACKGROUND: While thousands of ant species are arboreal, very few are able to chew and tunnel through living wood. Ants of the genus Melissotarsus (subfamily Myrmicinae) inhabit tunnel systems excavated under the bark of living trees, where they keep large numbers of symbiotic armoured scale insects...

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Autores principales: Khalife, Adam, Keller, Roberto A., Billen, Johan, Hita Garcia, Francisco, Economo, Evan P., Peeters, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6092875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30127838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0277-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6092875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30127838
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-018-0277-6

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