Name - Tetraponera aethiops
Name Details
Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)
urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1406271 [metadata]
Reported Taxonomic Ranks
Species
Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies
Animalia (Kingdom) Arthropoda (Phylum) Insecta (Class) Hymenoptera (Order) Apocrita (Suborder) Aculeata (Group) Formicoidea (Superfamily) Formicidae (Family) |
References
Recent Publications
- Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions.
- Repeated Evolution of Fungal Cultivar Specificity in Independently Evolved Ant-Plant-Fungus Symbioses.
- Impact of an invasive alien ant, Wasmannia auropunctata Roger., on a specialised plant-ant mutualism, Barteria fistulosa Mast. and Tetraponera aethiops F. Smith., in a Gabon forest.
- Pattern of specificity in the tripartite symbiosis between Barteria plants, ants and Chaetothyriales fungi.
- Congeneric mutualist ant symbionts (Tetraponera, Pseudomyrmecinae) differ in level of protection of their myrmecophyte hosts (Barteria, Passifloraceae).
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