A Plant Needs Ants like a Dog Needs Fleas: Myrmelachista schumanni Ants Gall Many Tree Species to Create Housing
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| 作者 | Edwards DP1; Frederickson ME2,3; Shepard GH4; Yu DW[*]5,6 |
| 刊名 | AMERICAN NATURALIST
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| 出版日期 | 2009 |
| 卷号 | 174期号:5页码:734-740 |
| 关键词 | ant-plant interactions galls myrmecophytes mutualism parasitism |
| ISSN号 | 0003-0147 |
| 通讯作者 | dougwyu@gmail.com |
| 合作状况 | 其它 |
| 英文摘要 | Hundreds of tropical plant species house ant colonies in specialized chambers called domatia. When, in 1873, Richard Spruce likened plant-ants to fleas and asserted that domatia are ant-created galls, he incited a debate that lasted almost a century. Although we now know that domatia are not galls and that most ant-plant interactions are mutualisms and not parasitisms, we revisit Spruce's suggestion that ants can gall in light of our observations of the plant-ant Myrmelachista schumanni, which creates clearings in the Amazonian rain forest called "supay-chakras," or "devil's gardens." We observed swollen scars on the trunks of nonmyrmecophytic canopy trees surrounding supay-chakras, and within these swellings, we found networks of cavities inhabited by M. schumanni. Here, we summarize the evidence supporting the hypothesis that M. schumanni ants make these galls, and we hypothesize that the adaptive benefit of galling is to increase the amount of nesting space available to M. schumanni colonies. |
| 收录类别 | SCI |
| 资助信息 | Support for this work came from the Yunnan government (20080A001), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (0902281081), the A. L. Green Fund, the Wil- liam F. Milton Fund, the National Geographic Society, and the Leverhulme Trust. M.E.F. thanks the Society of Fellows at Harvard University, D.P.E. thanks the Leverhulme Trust, and G.H.S. thanks E. G. Neves and the Fundac ¸a ˜o de Am- paro a Pesquisa do Estado de Sa ˜o Paulo (FAPESP). |
| 原文出处 | 20091745734.pdf |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 公开日期 | 2010-08-24 |
| 源URL | [http://159.226.149.42:8088/handle/152453/2765]  |
| 专题 | 昆明动物研究所_动物生态学研究中心 昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室 |
| 作者单位 | 1.Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom 2.Society of Fellows and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 3.Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, 25 Harbord Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G5, Canada 4.Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, University of Sa ˜o Paulo, Avenida Prof. Almeida Prado 1466, Sa ˜o Paulo, SP 05508-900, Brazil 5.State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Eolution; Ecology, Conservation and the Environment Center; Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China 6.Centre for Ecology, Evolution, and Conservation and School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Edwards DP,Frederickson ME,Shepard GH,et al. A Plant Needs Ants like a Dog Needs Fleas: Myrmelachista schumanni Ants Gall Many Tree Species to Create Housing[J]. AMERICAN NATURALIST,2009,174(5):734-740. |
| APA | Edwards DP,Frederickson ME,Shepard GH,&Yu DW[*].(2009).A Plant Needs Ants like a Dog Needs Fleas: Myrmelachista schumanni Ants Gall Many Tree Species to Create Housing.AMERICAN NATURALIST,174(5),734-740. |
| MLA | Edwards DP,et al."A Plant Needs Ants like a Dog Needs Fleas: Myrmelachista schumanni Ants Gall Many Tree Species to Create Housing".AMERICAN NATURALIST 174.5(2009):734-740. |
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