Protective ant-plant interactions as model systems in ecological and evolutionary research.

By Martin Heil, D. McKey. 2003

688 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Martin Heil
2. K. Del‐Claro
3. R. Karban
4. D. Cipollini
5. André Kessler
6. P. Oliveira
7. Jonas Byk
8. Wesley Dáttilo

In Genetics

1. K. Del‐Claro
2. Martin Heil
3. Jonas Byk
4. A. Hampe
5. Wesley Dáttilo
6. N. E. Raine
7. R. Karban
8. P. Willmer

In Insect Science

1. Martin Heil
2. R. Karban
3. D. Cipollini
4. André Kessler
5. K. Del‐Claro
6. N. E. Raine
7. Wesley Dáttilo
8. A. Hampe

Citations in the corpus

• Differences among ant species in plant protection are related to production of extrafloral nectar and degree of leaf herbivory (2017, background): “However, ant–plant interactions based on extrafloral nectar are often generalized and facultative (Heil & McKey, 2003; Rico-Gray & Oliveira, 2007); thus, species of plants and ants can interact with several partners at different frequencies (Lange, Dattilo & Del-Claro, 2013; Belchior, Sendoya &…”
• Costs and benefits of induced resistance to herbivores and pathogens in plants (2010, background): “Hundreds of studies in a wide range of ecosystems demonstrated that the presence of ants, which are attracted to EFN, benefits the EFN-secreting plant (see [18, 154, 155] for reviews).”
• Can optimal defence theory be used to predict the distribution of plant chemical defences? (2010, neutral): “However, the roles of inducible defence and resistance (Karban & Baldwin 1997), indirect defences such as mutualistic, biotic defences (e.g. Heil & McKey 2003), mechanical defences such as trichomes and laticifer systems (e.g. Farrell et al. 1991), and the interactions among them, are increasingly…”
• Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness (2011, background): “Extrafloral nectar production and quality can vary among plant species, plants of the same species and leaves of the same plant, depending also on season, soil quality and herbivory (Koptur 1992; Heil and McKey 2003; GonzálezTeuber and Heil 2009).”
• Damage to sagebrush attracts predators but this does not reduce herbivory (2007, background): “These examples involve ants that have obligate relationships with their host plants and are more effective protectors than more common, opportunistic ants that have facultative relationships with plants (Heil & McKey, 2003).”
• Some Evolutionary Consequences of Being a Tree (2006, background): “…with similarly short generation times could mediate defense against antagonists, as in the case of protective ant-plant interactions corresponding to antiherbivore defenses “worn on the outside” (Heil & McKey 2003) or in fungal endophytes that limit pathogen damages (Arnold et al. 2003).”
• The multiple faces of indirect defences and their agents of natural selection (2011, background): “The production of ant food rewards increases predator visitations, and thus predation on herbivores may be higher on EFN-producing plants than on plants not producing EFN (O’Dowd 1982; Koptur 1992; Heil & McKey 2003).”
• Floral volatiles controlling ant behaviour (2009, background): “Some plants possess extrafloral nectaries (EFNs) on their foliage, which attract nectar-gathering ants, while a subset of these species (myrmecophytic plants) offer the ants specialized structures as shelter (domatia) and sometimes protein bodies as food (Bentley 1977; Heil & McKey 2003 ).”
• Induction of two indirect defences benefits Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus, Fabaceae) in nature (2004, background): “Journal of Ecology 2004 92 , 527–536 © 2004 British Ecological Society Blackwell Publishing, Ltd.Induction of two indirect defences benefits Lima bean ( Phaseolus lunatus , Fabaceae) in nature”