Choosing benefits or partners: a review of the evidence for the evolution of myrmecochory

By I. Giladi. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Citations in the corpus

Ecological opportunity and the origin of adaptive radiations (2010, background): “…is associated with reduced seed predation and better seed placement, both of which allow plants employing this strategy to produce fewer seeds (Giladi, 2006); but because ants do not disperse seeds very far from the source plant, myrmecochorous species are more prone to allopatric speciation…”
An update of the world survey of myrmecochorous dispersal distances (2013, background): “On the other hand, it is known that at least 77 plant families have species with seeds that present diff erent types of appendages rich in lipids (i.e. arils, arillodes, caruncles, funicles) called elaiosomes that attract the ants (Beattie 1985, Giladi 2006).”
Birds and ants provide complementary seed dispersal in a neotropical savanna (2010, unknown): “4), decreasing the potential of distance-related benefits (Giladi 2006) that seem to be more important for the regeneration of Xylopia (see below).”
The little things that run the world revisited: a review of ant-mediated ecosystem services and disservices (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) (2012, background): “Myrmecochory is the result of a co-evolutionary, mutualistic relationship in which the seed provides ants with a lipidrich nutritional resource, called an elaiosome, in return for which the ant collects and disperses the seed (BEATTIE 1985, GILADI 2006).”
Uncommon specialization in a mutualism between a temperate herbaceous plant guild and an ant: are Aphaenogaster ants keystone mutualists? (2009, background): “These responses satisfy the criteria attributed to an ideal myrmecochore partner (Giladi 2006).”
Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey (2010, background): “Grandicalyx (‘genome K’lineage) Berg (1975), Westoby et al. (1990) AU 12 Seelanan et al. (1999), Liu et al. (2001) 96 Malvaceae Lasiopetalum, Hannafordia, Maxwellia, Thomasia, Guichenotia, Commersonia, Rulingia, Keraudrenia, Seringia Berg (1975), Westoby et al. (1990) AU 167 Whitlock et al. (2001) 9”