myrmecophily
Britishnoun
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symbiosis with ants
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pollination of plants by ants
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The fact we can see evolution apparently repeating itself in instances of myrmecophily suggests that there may not be an infinite number of ways to integrate into an ant colony.
From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012
Sharing the same habitat probably makes the shift to myrmecophily much easier, but can’t itself explain the propensity to do so.
From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012
That the same regions of the body have been co-opted suggests that some shared ancestral precursor structure may exist there—a gland, some bristles—which can be readily modified into a device for myrmecophily.
From Scientific American • Dec. 10, 2012
What both pselaphines and aleocharines show is that species that exhibit an advanced state of myrmecophily tend to demonstrate analogous elaborate morphological and behavioural modifications.
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 Smith, John. B.
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