Sugar and amino acid composition of ant‐attended nectar and honeydew sources from an Australian rainforest

By N. Blüthgen, G. Gottsberger, K. Fiedler. 2004

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

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Floral scents repel potentially nectar-thieving ants (2008, background): “…confirm that nectar per se rarely deters ants (Feinsinger and Swarm, 1978; Guerrant and Fiedler, 1981; Haber et al., 1981; Koptur and Truong, 1998; Blüthgen et al., 2004) and although certain defensive substances may be dissolved in floral nectar (Stephenson, 1981; Koptur and Truong, 1998;…”
Interaction between flowers, ants and pollinators: additional evidence for floral repellence against ants (2007, background): “Nectar from two Australian plants was clearly repellent to ants, while ants often consumed flower nectar on several other species (Blüthgen et al. 2004a).”
Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness (2011, background): “Plant nectar and hemipteran honeydew have a key role structuring ant communities in the rainforest, with dominant species avoiding the use of same plants, but co-occurring with non-dominant ant species (Blüthgen et al. 2004b).”
Nutritional and functional biology of exudate‐feeding ants (2006, background): “Although EFN and wound secretions also contain mainly non-essential amino acids, they lack the disproportionate representation of glutamine and arginine and contain predominantly simple sugars [sucrose, fructose, and glucose (Engel et al., 2001; Blüthgen et al., 2004)].”
Bottom‐up control and co‐occurrence in complex communities: honeydew and nectar determine a rainforest ant mosaic (2004, background): “that were inaccessible to most ants) (Blüthgen et al., 2004).”
Assembling the Tree of the Monocotyledons: Plastome Sequence Phylogeny and Evolution of Poales1 (2010, background): “…secretes large amounts 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…”