Mutualism: Ants and their Insect Partners

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Forage collection, substrate preparation, and diet composition in fungus‐growing ants (2010, background): “Almost all these mutualisms involve the unilateral or bilateral transfer of nutrients (Douglas, 1994; Stadler & Dixon, 2008) with gut symbionts and intracellular endosymbionts as © 2010 The Authors Journal compilation © 2010 The Royal Entomological Society 259 classic examples (Suh et al., 2005;…”
The arboreal ant community visiting extrafloral nectaries in the Neotropical cerrado savanna (2010, background): “…and renewable plant- and insect-derived exudates such as extrafl oral nectar, honeydew from sap-feeding hemipterans, and secretions from lepidopteran larvae ( Figure 1 ; see Bentley, 1977 ; DíazCastelazo et al., 2004 ; Koptur, 2005 ; Styrsky and Eubanks, 2007 ; Stadler and Dixon, 2008 ).”
The evolution of facilitation and mutualism (2009, background): “My goal is to identify similarities and differences that might inform which aspects of the biology of these positive interactions are and are not parallel; more in-depth reviews can be found elsewhere (Callaway 2007; Bronstein & Holland 2008; Brooker et al. 2008; Stadler & Dixon 2008).”