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Biotropica, 1989 The association between Azteca ants and Cecropia trees is the most conspicuous ant-plant mutualism in the neotropics, yet little is known about the identities or community ecology of the species involved. A survey of ant communities found in Costa Rican Cecropia trees revealed a community of Azteca species obligately associated with Cecropia, and a ...
John T. Longino
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HOST‐PLANT UTILIZATION BY HYALOPHORA CECROPIA AS AFFECTED BY PRIOR FEEDING EXPERIENCE
Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata, 1982 Hyalophora cecropia larvae were switched at the beginning of the penultimate stadium from one host‐plant species to another to test whether prior feeding on one host‐species alters the ability of larvae to utilize a new host‐species. Larvae accepted the new hosts, survived and grew normally.
ERIC M. GRABSTEIN, J. MARK SCRIBER
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Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1967 In the autumn and winter of 1965–66, 482 cocoons of Hyalophora cecropia (L.) were collected in urban environments in and near Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. In this area at least 26 plants of 12 families—all woody, dicotyledonous angiosperms—serve as hosts. Acer saccharinum L., Cornus stolonifera Michx., and C. alba L. are the most frequently utilized.
G. P. Waldbauer, J. G. Sternburg
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Systematic and Applied Acarology, 2017 Cecropia pachystachya Trec. (Urticaceae) is a common pioneer plant from South America, which is found on both degraded and preserved environments. Pioneer plants are able to disperse into agricultural environments and to introduce species of mites different from those present amongst the cultivated plants. This study evaluated the mite fauna present on
Lofego, Antonio Carlos +3 more
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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1999 Plant defense against herbivores often involves constitutive and inducible mechanisms of resistance. Obligate ant-plants, which provide food and housing for ants, are thought to primarily rely on ants for defense against herbivores. This form of plant defense has largely been viewed as static.
Anurag A. Agrawal +1 more
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Acta Physiologiae Plantarum, 2011 Cecropia peltata is popularly known as “guarumbo” in Mexico and is used in traditional medicine for treatment of diabetes mellitus. C. peltata plants were cultivated in a hydroponic system under controlled conditions. Gradients of light (20, 30 and 100 μmol m−2 s−1) and nitrate concentrations (13, 2 and 0.2 mM) were applied to estimate their effect on ...
Alejandro Mora Izquierdo +3 more
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Hypoglycemic effect of the plant Cecropia peltata L. (Yagrumo) in vivo and in vitro
, 2017 Nubilde Martínez +6 more
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Oecologia, 1992 The effect of defence force size in colonies of the ant Azteca muelleri on the time spent to localize, attack and expel the specialized herbivorous beetle Coelomera ruficornis from Cecropia pachystachya bushes was studied in an area of Atlantic forest in northeastern Brazil. Our results show that Azteca muelleri expel Coelomera ruficornis from Cecropia
Carlos Frederico Duarte, Rocha +1 more
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Journal of Fluorescence, 2014 The physiological behavior of PSII measured by chlorophyll a fluorescence explains stress responses; wonders if it can differentiate plants from different populations. For this purpose, acclimated young plants of two C. pachystachya populations were cultivated from seeds. Chlorophyll-a fluorescence was measured after fertilization and [CO(2)](e).
E F, Santiago +5 more
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