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Learning through the waste: olfactory cues from the colony refuse influence plant preferences in foraging leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
, 2016 Leaf-cutting ants learn to avoid plants initially harvested if they proved to be harmful for their symbiotic fungus once incorporated into the nest.
Arenas, Andres, Roces, Flavio
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Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND : The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions.
Boomsma, Jacobus J. +3 more
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Leaf‐Cutter Ant Parasitoids: Current Knowledge
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2013, Issue 1, 2013., 2013 This review updates and summarizes the current knowledge about the interaction of leaf‐cutter ants and their parasitoids by providing comparable data for Acromyrmex and Atta ants. First, an overview of the relevant aspects of the biology and taxonomy of leaf cutters and of their parasitoids is provided.
Patricia J. Folgarait, Alain Lenoir
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Acta Scientiarum: Biological Sciences, 2008 Espécies de Acromyrmex Mayr, 1865, foram coletadas em vários municípios do Brasil, nos seguintes estados: de Santa Catarina, Paraná, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso, Rondônia, Amapá, e também no Paraguai e no Uruguai ...
Jael Simões Santos Rando +1 more
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Sanitizing the fortress: protection of ant brood and nest material by worker antibiotics [PDF]
, 2013 Social groups are at particular risk for parasite infection, which is heightened in eusocial insects by the low genetic diversity of individuals within a colony. To combat this, adult ants have evolved a suite of defenses to protect each other, including
Graystock, P +4 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 This paper describes habitat and geographic correlates of ant diversity in Serra da Bodoquena, a poorly surveyed region of central‐western Brazil. We discuss leaf‐litter ant diversity on a regional scale, with emphasis on the contribution of each of the processes that form the evolutionary basis of contemporary beta diversity.
Rogério Silvestre +3 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, Volume 2012, Issue 1, 2012., 2012 We describe the use of ants as indicators in Brazil, based on a critical review of published articles. The analysis of fifty‐eight papers, encompassing a range of almost 25 years, indicates an increased number of studies using ants as indicators in the last decade. Among the parameters analyzed in the papers, species composition is the most suitable to
Carla R. Ribas +4 more
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Metabolism And The Rise Of Fungus Cultivation By Ants [PDF]
, 2014 Most ant colonies are comprised of workers that cooperate to harvest resources and feed developing larvae. Around 50 million years ago (MYA), ants of the attine lineage adopted an alternative strategy, harvesting resources used as compost to produce ...
Kaspari, Michael +5 more
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Action mode of fipronil and sulfluramid in baits on Acromyrmex crassispinus (Forel, 1909) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in laboratory conditions [PDF]
, 2023 The leaf-cutting ants (LCAs) of the genus Atta Fabricius, 1804 and Acromyrmex Mayr, 1865 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are major pests in forest plantations, agriculture and livestock.
Camargo, Roberto S. +3 more
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Journal of Insect Physiology, 2010 The division of labor between the different worker castes of leaf-cutting ants may reflect in their capacity to exchange liquids by trophallaxis. The crop capacity of and trophallactic exchanges between different size classes of worker leaf-cutting ants of the sub-species Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus were investigated. Size classes were defined
D D O, Moreira +5 more
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