Preferences for sugars and amino acids and their conditionality in a diverse nectar‐feeding ant community

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What shapes amino acid and sugar composition in Mediterranean floral nectars (2006, unknown): “According to Gardener and Gillman (2002) honeybees and flies show a preferential response to AAs contained in nectarmimicking solutions, whereas nectar-feeding ants also show some preference for AAs (Bluthgen and Fiedler 2004).”
Sugar and amino acid composition of ant‐attended nectar and honeydew sources from an Australian rainforest (2004, background): “Amino acids are crucial in dietary preferences by ants ( Bluthgen & Fiedler 2004b ) and could thus play a major role in determining the structure of the ant community at liquid food”
Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales1 (2010, background): “…of nectar, with high concentrations of sugar and amino acids, from extrafloral nectaries and attracts large numbers of ants (Blüthgen et al., 2004a, b; Blüthgen & Fiedler, 2004); the ants observed to visit the flowers (Newell, 1969) almost surely are attracted by these extrafloral nectaries.”