MECHANISMS AND DENSITY DEPENDENCE OF BENEFIT IN AN ANT–MEMBRACID MUTUALISM

By M. A. Morales. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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Citations in the corpus

• Trophobiosis Between Formicidae and Hemiptera (Sternorrhyncha and Auchenorrhyncha): an Overview (2001, background): “The survival rate does not depend of the number of trophobionts living in the aggregation (Flatt & Weisser 2000, Morales 2000).”
• Quantifying the costs and benefits of parental care in female treehoppers (2003, background): “Ants collect honeydew excreted by treehopper adults and nymphs in return for protection from predators and parasites; experiments have shown that the removal of ants results in high rates of predation and mortality for nymphs (McEvoy, 1977, 1979; Morales, 2000a, b).”