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A single Streptomyces symbiont makes multiple antifungals to support the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Attine ants are dependent on a cultivated fungus for food and use antibiotics produced by symbiotic Actinobacteria as weedkillers in their fungus gardens. Actinobacterial species belonging to the genera Pseudonocardia, Streptomyces and Amycolatopsis have
Ryan F Seipke   +25 more
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Heat-induced symmetry breaking in ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) escape behavior. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2017
The collective egress of social insects is important in dangerous situations such as natural disasters or enemy attacks. Some studies have described the phenomenon of symmetry breaking in ants, with two exits induced by a repellent.
Yuan-Kai Chung, Chung-Chi Lin
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Ant's Social Division of Labor and Its Influencing Factors [PDF]

open access: yesBIO Web of Conferences
As a higher social insect, ants have a clear hierarchy within them. According to the different divisions of labor, ant groups mainly include worker ants, soldier ants, male ants, and queen ants.
Fu Jinwen
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Ant species identity mediates reproductive traits and allocation in an ant-garden bromeliad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Background and Aims Determining the sources of variation in floral morphology is crucial to understanding the mechanisms underlying Angiosperm evolution.
Alain Dejean   +12 more
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Taxonomy of the Crematogaster degeeri-species-assemblage in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We revise the species-level taxonomy of the Crematogaster (Crematogaster) degeerispecies-assemblage, a group of related ants occuring in Madagascar and the wider Malagasy region, and further provide an identification key to all species-groups of the ...
Bonnie B. Blaimer   +4 more
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Outsmarted by ants [PDF]

open access: yesNature, 2005
An elegant orientation solution that is used by ants to get back to their nest eluded even Richard Feynman, suggesting that social insects could help to solve many of our engineering problems.
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Ants

open access: yes, 2014
Ant phylogeny of Moreau CS, Bell CD, Vila R, Archibald SB, Pierce NE (2006) Phylogeny of the ants: diversi cation in the age of angiosperms.
Sebastian Höhna (506055)   +1 more
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Larger Seeds are Dispersed Farther: the Long-Distance Seed Disperser ant Aphaenogaster famelica Prefers Larger Seeds

open access: yesSociobiology, 2015
Seed dispersal by ants (myrmecochory) is an important life phase in flowering herbs of temperate deciduous forests, and long dispersal is basically preferable in terms of plant fitness.
Satobu Takahashi, Takao Itino
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Fungi as mutualistic partners in ant-plant interactions

open access: yesFrontiers in Fungal Biology, 2023
Associations between fungi and ants living in mutualistic relationship with plants (“plant-ants”) have been known for a long time. However, only in recent years has the mutualistic nature, frequency, and geographical extent of associations between ...
Veronika E. Mayer   +5 more
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Särev, Ants. Isikuarhiiv [PDF]

open access: yes, 1993
49 säilikutI Biograafilised materjalid, materjalid õpingute kohta, teaduslike tööde nimestikud, s.1-5. II Kirjavahetus. 1. Veljestolaste kirjad Ants Särevile, s.6-32. 2. Teiste isikute kirjad Ants Särevile, s.33-39. 3. Kutsed ja nimekaardid, s.40-42. III
Tartu Ülikooli Raamatukogu
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