Current issues in the evolutionary ecology of ant-plant symbioses

Stabilizing Mutualisms Threatened by Exploiters: New Insights from Ant-Plant Research

(2013) Domancar Orona-Tamayo et al.   BIOTROPICA

Consequences of past climate change for species engaged in obligatory interactions

(2013) Rumsaïs Blatrix et al.   COMPTES RENDUS GEOSCIENCE

Effects of Dam-Induced Landscape Fragmentation on Amazonian Ant-Plant Mutualistic Networks

(2013) CARINE EMER et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Impact of an invasive alien ant,Wasmannia auropunctataRoger., on a specialised plant-ant mutualism,Barteria fistulosaMast. andTetraponera aethiopsF. Smith., in a Gabon forest

(2013) JEAN B. MIKISSA et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

What happens when ants fail at plant defence?Cordia nodosadynamically adjusts its investment in both direct and indirect resistance traits in response to herbivore damage

(2013) Megan E. Frederickson et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Let the best one stay: screening of ant defenders byAcaciahost plants functions independently of partner choice or host sanctions

(2013) Martin Heil   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Exclusive rewards in mutualisms: ant proteases and plant protease inhibitors create a lock-key system to protectAcaciafood bodies from exploitation

(2013) Domancar Orona-Tamayo et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Spatial structure of ant-plant mutualistic networks

(2013) Wesley Dáttilo et al.   OIKOS

Rethinking Mutualism Stability: Cheaters and the Evolution of Sanctions

(2013) Megan E. Frederickson   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Water Stress Strengthens Mutualism Among Ants, Trees, and Scale Insects

(2013) Elizabeth G. Pringle et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Analysis of the bacterial communities associated with two ant-plant symbioses

(2013) Ryan F. Seipke et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

The Direct and Ecological Costs of an Ant-Plant Symbiosis

(2012) Megan E. Frederickson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Uptake of ant-derived nitrogen in the myrmecophytic orchid Caularthron bilamellatum

(2012) Christian Gegenbauer et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The phylogenetic distribution of extrafloral nectaries in plants

(2012) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Recent phylogeographic structure in a widespread ‘weedy’ Neotropical tree species,Cordia alliodora(Boraginaceae)

(2012) Paul D. Rymer et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

Composition of Extrafloral Nectar Influences Interactions between the Myrmecophyte Humboldtia brunonis and its Ant Associates

(2012) Megha Shenoy et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Diversification and phylogeographic structure in widespreadAztecaplant-ants from the northern Neotropics

(2012) ELIZABETH G. PRINGLE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species

(2012) KIRK E. ANDERSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Plant age and the inducibility of extrafloral nectaries in Vicia faba

(2012) Kevin E. Kwok et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Short-term proteomic dynamics reveal metabolic factory for active extrafloral nectar secretion byAcacia cornigeraant-plants

(2012) Domancar Orona-Tamayo et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

A Carnivorous Plant Fed by Its Ant Symbiont: A Unique Multi-Faceted Nutritional Mutualism

(2012) Vincent Bazile et al.   PLoS One

Resilient Networks of Ant-Plant Mutualists in Amazonian Forest Fragments

(2012) Heather A. Passmore et al.   PLoS One

Increased Host Investment in Extrafloral Nectar (EFN) Improves the Efficiency of a Mutualistic Defensive Service

(2012) Marcia González-Teuber et al.   PLoS One

Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions

(2012) R. Blatrix et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Range expansion induces variation in a behavioural trait in an ant–plant mutualism

(2011) Marion Vittecoq et al.   ACTA OECOLOGICA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Population Status and Reproductive Success of an Endangered Epiphytic Orchid in a Fragmented Landscape

(2011) Victor Parra-Tabla et al.   BIOTROPICA

The high cost of mutualism: effects of four species of East African ant symbionts on their myrmecophyte host tree

(2011) Maureen L. Stanton et al.   ECOLOGY

Economic game theory for mutualism and cooperation

(2011) Marco Archetti et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

An ant symbiont directly and indirectly limits its host plant’s reproductive success

(2011) Pierre-Jean G. Malé et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Cladophialophora psammophila, a novel species of Chaetothyriales with a potential use in the bioremediation of volatile aromatic hydrocarbons

(2011) Hamid Badali et al.   Fungal Biology

Contrasting cascade effects of carnivores on plant fitness: a meta-analysis

(2011) Gustavo Q. Romero et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Innocent invaders? A preliminary assessment ofCecropia, an American tree, in Java

(2011) Douglas Sheil et al.   Plant Ecology & Diversity

Evolutionary transitions in bacterial symbiosis

(2011) J. L. Sachs et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nectar: generation, regulation and ecological functions

(2011) Martin Heil   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

Let the Right One In: A Microeconomic Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms

(2010) Marco Archetti et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The fate of Amazonian forest fragments: A 32-year investigation

(2010) William F. Laurance et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Macronutrient content of plant-based food affects growth of a carnivorous arthropod

(2010) Shawn M. Wilder et al.   ECOLOGY

Indirect benefits of symbiotic coccoids for an ant-defended myrmecophytic tree

(2010) Elizabeth G. Pringle et al.   ECOLOGY

Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

(2010) E. Toby Kiers et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The diversity of ant-associated black yeasts: insights into a newly discovered world of symbiotic interactions

(2010) Hermann Voglmayr et al.   Fungal Biology

The evolution of mutualism

(2010) E. G. LEIGH Jr   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Origins of cheating and loss of symbiosis in wildBradyrhizobium

(2010) J. L. SACHS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Dynamics of the association between a long-lived understory myrmecophyte and its specific associated ants

(2010) Jérôme Orivel et al.   OECOLOGIA

Benefits for Plants in Ant-Plant Protective Mutualisms: A Meta-Analysis

(2010) Matthew D. Trager et al.   PLoS One

Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

(2010) T. M. Palmer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Economic contract theory tests models of mutualism

(2010) E. G. Weyl et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen

(2010) E. Defossez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Conflict over Reproduction in an Ant‐Plant Symbiosis: Why Allomerus octoarticulatus Ants Sterilize Cordia nodosa Trees

(2009) Megan E. Frederickson   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Bacterial Associates of Arboreal Ants and Their Putative Functions in an Obligate Ant-Plant Mutualism

(2009) S. Eilmus et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Blochmannia endosymbionts improve colony growth and immune defence in the ant Camponotus fellah

(2009) Danival J de Souza et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Herbivory in a spider through exploitation of an ant–plant mutualism

(2009) Christopher J. Meehan et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

For ant-protected plants, the best defense is a hungry offense

(2009) J. H. Ness et al.   ECOLOGY

The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants

(2009) Megan E. Frederickson et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantitative synthesis of context dependency in ant–plant protection mutualisms

(2009) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY

The evolution of intermediate castration virulence and ant coexistence in a spatially structured environment

(2009) András Szilágyi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

HOW TO PREVENT CHEATING: A DIGESTIVE SPECIALIZATION TIES MUTUALISTIC PLANT-ANTS TO THEIR ANT-PLANT PARTNERS

(2009) Stefanie Kautz et al.   EVOLUTION

Stable isotope investigation of a cryptic ant-plant association: Myrmelachista flavocotea (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) and Ocotea spp. (Lauraceae)

(2009) K. McNett et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

The Role of Extrafloral Nectar Amino Acids for the Preferences of Facultative and Obligate Ant Mutualists

(2009) Marcia González-Teuber et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

(2009) Emmanuel Defossez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ants on plants: a meta-analysis of the role of ants as plant biotic defenses

(2009) Felix B. Rosumek et al.   OECOLOGIA

Pathogenesis-related proteins protect extrafloral nectar from microbial infestation

(2009) Marcia González-Teuber et al.   PLANT JOURNAL

Glucanases and Chitinases as Causal Agents in the Protection of Acacia Extrafloral Nectar from Infestation by Phytopathogens

(2009) M. Gonzalez-Teuber et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Range Expansion Drives Dispersal Evolution In An Equatorial Three-Species Symbiosis

(2009) Guillaume Léotard et al.   PLoS One

Herbivory-induced extrafloral nectar increases native and invasive ant worker survival

(2009) Lori Lach et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Phylogeography of the Coccus scale insects inhabiting myrmecophytic Macaranga plants in Southeast Asia

(2009) Shouhei Ueda et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Divergent investment strategies of Acacia myrmecophytes and the coexistence of mutualists and exploiters

(2009) M. Heil et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mycelial carton galleries of Azteca brevis (Formicidae) as a multi-species network

(2009) V. E. Mayer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Millennial-scale changes in vegetation records from tropical Africa and South America during the last glacial

(2009) Ines Hessler et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Food bodies in Cissus verticillata (Vitaceae): ontogenesis, structure and functional aspects

(2008) Elder Antônio Sousa Paiva et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Anatomy, Ultrastructure and Chemical Composition of Food Bodies of Hovenia dulcis (Rhamnaceae)

(2008) Rafael Andrade Buono et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Tolerating castration by hiding flowers in plain sight

(2008) David P. Edwards et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Optimal defence theory predicts investment in extrafloral nectar resources in an ant-plant mutualism

(2008) J. Nathaniel Holland et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Indirect defence via tritrophic interactions

(2008) Martin Heil   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Specificity and transmission mosaic of ant nest-wall fungi

(2008) B. C. Schlick-Steiner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna

(2008) T. M. Palmer et al.   SCIENCE