Varied Effects of Tending Ant Species on the Development of Facultatively Myrmecophilous Lycaenid Butterfly Larvae

Ants often tend and protect the larvae of various myrmecophilous lycaenid species, which influences the fitness of butterflies by altering their growth and developmental time. Tending produces diverse effects depending on lycaenid sex and the lycaenid/ant species combination. Effects are widely vari...

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Autores principales: Mizuno, Takafumi, Hagiwara, Yasuo, Akino, Toshiharu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6723302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31374954
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects10080234

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6723302/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31374954
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects10080234

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