Symbiont demand guides resource supply: leaf-cutting ants preferentially deliver their harvested fragments to undernourished fungus gardens

Leaf-cutting ants are highly successful herbivores in the Neotropics. They forage large amounts of fresh plant material to nourish a symbiotic fungus that sustains the colony. It is unknown how workers organize the intra-nest distribution of resources, and whether they respond to increasing demands...

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Autores principales: Römer, Daniela, Aguilar, Gonzalo Pacheco, Meyer, Annika, Roces, Flavio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35467116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-022-01797-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9038804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35467116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-022-01797-7

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