Accidental tree wound reveals novel symbiotic behavior

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January 7, 2022

Despite significant movement restrictions during the first wave of the pandemic in Panama City, a group of curious high school students roamed their neighborhood drilling holes into Cecropia trees and documenting how Azteca alfari ants responded to damage to their host plant.

Guardian ants: How far does the protection of a plant-ant species to its specific host go?

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Tagged ant, Hymenoptera, mutualism, plant, plant-ant, protection, symbiont, symbiosisLeave a comment

December 2, 2015

Seemingly helpless against their much more lively natural enemies, plants have actually come up with a wide range of defences. In the present research, published in the open-access Journal of Hymenoptera Research, Dr. Adriana Sanchez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia, and Edwin Bellota, Texas A&M University, USA, focus on the mutualistic relationship developed between a specific […]