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Volatile Organic Compounds in the Azteca/Cecropia Ant-Plant Symbiosis and the Role of Black Fungi [PDF]
Journal of Fungi, 2021 Black fungi of the order Chaetothyriales are grown by many tropical plant-mutualistic ants as small so-called “patches” in their nests, which are located inside hollow structures provided by the host plant (“domatia”).
Veronika E. Mayer +4 more
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Caterpillars and fungal pathogens: two co-occurring parasites of an ant-plant mutualism. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In mutualisms, each interacting species obtains resources from its partner that it would obtain less efficiently if alone, and so derives a net fitness benefit.
Olivier Roux +3 more
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Molecules, 2018 Plant extracts from the genus Cecropia have been used by Latin-American traditional medicine to treat metabolic disorders and diabetes. Previous results have shown that roots of Cecropia telenitida contain pentacyclic triterpenes and these molecules ...
Catalina Mosquera +2 more
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Sociobiology, 2018 In order to understand the effects of human impacts on structure and functioning of tropical forests, we should consider studies on animal-plant interactions such as antplant mutualistic interactions.We investigated the mutualistic interactions between ...
Marcos Augusto Ferraz Carneiro +4 more
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 2017 Mutualisms could be evolutionarily unstable, with changes in partner abundances or in the spatial context of interactions potentially promoting their dissolution. We test this prediction using the defense mutualisms between species of the Neotropical genus Cecropia and Azteca ants.
Gutiérrez-Valencia, J +2 more
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Colony personality and plant health in the Azteca-Cecropia mutualism
Behavioral Ecology, 2017 AbstractFor interspecific mutualisms, the behavior of one partner can influence the fitness of the other, especially in the case of symbiotic mutualisms where partners live in close physical association for much of their lives. Behavioral effects on fitness may be particularly important if either species in these long-term relationships displays ...
Stephen C Pratt +2 more
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The Azteca‐Cecropia Association: Are Ants Always Necessary for Their Host Plants?
Biotropica, 2004 ABSTRACTWe assessed the effects of Azteca alfari presence on herbivory and growth of saplings for two Amazonian Cecropia species. For both species, rates of herbivory were low and did not differ between ant‐removed and ant‐maintained plants. Plant growth, measured over six months, was also similar among treatments.
Sarita B. Fáveri +1 more
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The effect of symbiotic ant colonies on plant growth: a test using an Azteca-Cecropia system.
PLoS ONE, 2015 In studies of ant-plant mutualisms, the role that ants play in increasing the growth rates of their plant partners is potentially a key beneficial service.
Karla N Oliveira +5 more
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Tissue culture of Cecropia glaziovii Sneth (urticaceae): vegetative micropropagation and plant regeneration from callus Cultura de tecidos de Cecropia glaziovii Sneth (Urticaceae): micropropagação vegetativa e regeneração de plantas via calos [PDF]
Ciência e Agrotecnologia, 2010 Cecropia glaziovii is a tree with used in Brazilian popular medicine. Methods allowing the clonal propagation of this species are of great interest for superior genotype multiplication and perpetuation.
Marcos Nopper Alves
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, 2015 Neue Einsichten in die komplexe Dreifachinteraktion von Ameisen, Pflanzen und Pilzen in Ameisenpflanzen offenbarten Pilzpatches als wichtigen Bestandteil von Ameisen-Pflanzen Symbiosen. Pilzflächen (Patches) findet man in phylogenetisch verschiedenen Ameisen-Pflanzen Symbiosen innerhalb der von der Wirtspflanze bereitgestellten Wohnräume (Domatia ...
Oberhauser, Felix Benjamin
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