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A metabolic pathway assembled by enzyme selection may support herbivory of leaf-cutter ants on plant starch
(2013-05-01)
Mutualistic associations shape the evolution in different organism groups. The association between the leaf-cutter ant Atta sexdens and the basidiomycete fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus has enabled them to degrade starch ...
Mutualism from the inside: coordinated development of plant and insect in an active pollinating fig wasp
(SPRINGERDORDRECHT, 2012)
Recent studies on the obligate interaction between fig trees and their pollinating agaonid wasps have focused on population aspects and wasp-seed exploitation at the level of the inflorescence. Detailed studies on larval ...
Dynamics and coexistence in a system with intraguild mutualism
(2013-06-01)
It is a tenet of ecological theory that two competing consumers cannot stably coexist on a single limiting resource in a homogeneous environment. Many mechanisms and processes have since been evoked and studied, empirically ...
Information theoretic interpretation of frequency domain connectivity measures
(SPRINGER, 2010)
In order to provide adequate multivariate measures of information flow between neural structures, modified expressions of partial directed coherence (PDC) and directed transfer function (DTF), two popular multivariate ...
Diversification in the use of resources by Idarnes species: bypassing functional constraints in the fig-fig wasp interaction
(WILEY-BLACKWELLMALDEN, 2013-08-02)
Mutualisms such as the figfig wasp mutualism are generally exploited by parasites. We demonstrate that amongst nonpollinating fig wasps (NPFWs) parasitic on Ficus citrifolia, a species of Idarnes galls flowers and another ...
Invasive belowground mutualists of woody plants
(Springer, 2014-01)
Most plants require mutualistic associa- tions to survive, which can be an important limitation on their ability to become invasive. There are four strategies that permit plants to become invasive without being limited ...
Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks
(WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2011)
A major current challenge in evolutionary biology is to understand how networks of interacting species shape the coevolutionary process. We combined a model for trait evolution with data for twenty plant-animal assemblages ...
Arthropod-microbiota integration: its importance for ecosystem conservation
(Frontiers Media, 2021)
Recent reports indicate that the health of our planet is getting worse and that genuine transformative changes are pressing. So far, efforts to ameliorate Earth’s ecosystem crises have been insufficient, as these often ...