Predation success by a plant-ant indirectly favours the growth and fitness of its host myrmecophyte

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• who: Alain Dejean and colleagues from the l'Architecture des Plantesl'Architecture des PlantesEditor: Nigel ERaine, Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom have published the Article: Predation Success by a Plant-Ant Indirectly Favours the Growth and Fitness of Its Host Myrmecophyte, in the Journal: PLOS ONE | www.plosone.org of March/14,/2013
• what: The authors focused this study on Hirtella physophora (Chrysobalanaceae) that houses colonies of Allomerus decemarticulatus (Myrmicinae) in pouches situated at the base of the leaf lamina (Fig 1) and provides them with extrafloral nectar. The authors show that colony . . .
  

   

  

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