myrmecophily
Britishnoun
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symbiosis with ants
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pollination of plants by ants
Example Sentences
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After all, a great many other groups of organisms frequent the same parts of the forest as ants, and these don’t show the same bias to myrmecophily as aleocharines and pselaphines.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
With enough replicates, a picture emerges of what usually happens as these beetles crawl along the evolutionary path, from free-living to an advanced state of myrmecophily.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
He is interested in developing model organisms and tools to study myrmecophily at the molecular genetic level.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
One small scuffle for a beetle, one giant leap along the path to myrmecophily.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 10, 2012
Trophibiosis, is the relationship between ants on the one hand and aphids, coccids and the like on the other; these species being sought and attended by the ants for their own benefit: see myrmecophily.
From Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology by John. B. Smith
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