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All sugars ain't sweet: selection of particular mono-, di- and trisaccharides by western carpenter ants and European fire ants

Ants select sustained carbohydrate resources, such as aphid honeydew, based on many factors including sugar type, volume and concentration. We tested the hypotheses (H1–H3) that western carpenter ants, Camponotus modoc, seek honeydew excretions from Cinara splendens aphids based solely on the presen...

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Autores principales: Renyard, Asim, Gries, Regine, Lee, Jan, Chalissery, Jaime M., Damin, Sebastian, Britton, Robert, Gries, Gerhard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8371376/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210804