Name - Aphomomyrmex afer

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1322718 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Aphomomyrmex afer Emery

• Aphomomyrmex afer Emery 1899

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Recent Publications

• Worker size variation and the evolution of an ant-plant mutualism: comparative morphometrics of workers of two closely related plant-ants, Petalomyrmex phylax and Aphomomyrmex afer (Formicinae).
• Colony foundation and acquisition of coccoid trophobionts by Aphomomyrmex afer (Formicinae): co-dispersal of queens and phoretic mealybugs in an ant-plant-homopteran mutualism?
• How identity of the homopteran trophobiont affects sex allocation in a symbiotic plant-ant: the proximate role of food.
• The Evolution of Communication in Two Ant-Plant Mutualisms.
• Repeated Evolution of Fungal Cultivar Specificity in Independently Evolved Ant-Plant-Fungus Symbioses.

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