An experimental, behavioral, and chemical analysis of food limitations in mutualistic
GC–MS
behavior
coccids
food bodies
isotope
myrmecophyte
plant–herbivore interactions
proteomics
Journal
Ecology and evolution
ISSN: 2045-7758
Titre abrégé: Ecol Evol
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101566408
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Feb 2023
Feb 2023
Historique:
received:
10
10
2022
revised:
06
01
2023
accepted:
08
01
2023
entrez:
13
2
2023
pubmed:
14
2
2023
medline:
14
2
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Obligate mutualistic plant-ants are often constrained by their plant partner's capacity to provide resources. However, despite this limitation, some ant partners actively reject potential prey items and instead drop them from the plant rather than consuming them, leaving the ants entirely reliant on host plant-provided food, including that provided indirectly by the symbiotic scale insects that ants tend inside the plants. This dependency potentially increases the efficiency of these ants in defending their host. We hypothesize that if this ant behavior was beneficial to the symbiosis, prey rejection by ants would be observed across multiple plant host species. We also hypothesize that plant-provided food items and symbiotic scale insects from other ant plants should be rejected. We address these hypotheses in the
Identifiants
pubmed: 36778840
doi: 10.1002/ece3.9760
pii: ECE39760
pmc: PMC9905419
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
e9760Informations de copyright
© 2023 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.
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