The diversity, ecology and evolution of extrafloral nectaries: current perspectives and future challenges

Nectar secretion on fern fronds associated with lower levels of herbivore damage: field experiments with a widespread epiphyte of Mexican cloud forest remnants

(2013) Suzanne Koptur et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Non-additive benefit or cost? Disentangling the indirect effects that occur when plants bearing extrafloral nectaries and honeydew-producing insects share exotic ant mutualists

(2013) Amy M. Savage et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

Long-term temporal variation in the organization of an ant–plant network

(2013) Cecilia Díaz-Castelazo et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

An ant’s-eye view of an ant-plant protection mutualism

(2013) M. C. Lanan et al.   OECOLOGIA

Phylogenetic and Experimental Tests of Interactions among Mutualistic Plant Defense Traits in Viburnum (Adoxaceae)

(2012) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Diversity and evolution of a trait mediating ant–plant interactions: insights from extrafloral nectaries in Senna (Leguminosae)

(2012) Brigitte Marazzi et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

The phylogenetic distribution of extrafloral nectaries in plants

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

LOCATING EVOLUTIONARY PRECURSORS ON A PHYLOGENETIC TREE

(2012) Brigitte Marazzi et al.   EVOLUTION

Evolution of extrafloral nectaries: adaptive process and selective regime changes from forest to savanna

(2012) A. Nogueira et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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

Poplar Extrafloral Nectaries: Two Types, Two Strategies of Indirect Defenses against Herbivores

(2012) M. Escalante-Perez et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY

Phylogeny, ecology, and the coupling of comparative and experimental approaches

(2012) Marjorie G. Weber et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Invasional meltdown: Invader–invader mutualism facilitates a secondary invasion

(2011) Peter T Green et al.   ECOLOGY

Do extrafloral nectaries present a defensive role against herbivores in two species of the family Bignoniaceae in a Neotropical savannas?

(2011) Anselmo Nogueira et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

Homoplasy: From Detecting Pattern to Determining Process and Mechanism of Evolution

(2011) D. B. Wake et al.   SCIENCE

Nectar: generation, regulation and ecological functions

(2011) Martin Heil   TRENDS IN PLANT SCIENCE

LARGE-SCALE PATTERNS OF DIVERSIFICATION IN THE WIDESPREAD LEGUME GENUS SENNA AND THE EVOLUTIONARY ROLE OF EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES

(2010) Brigitte Marazzi et al.   EVOLUTION

Attraction of ants by an invasive Acacia

(2010) MARKUS P. EICHHORN et al.   Insect Conservation and Diversity

Ant nest location, soil nutrients and nutrient uptake by ant-associated plants: does extrafloral nectar attract ant nests and thereby enhance plant nutrition?

(2010) Diane Wagner et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Is extrafloral nectar production induced by herbivores or ants in a tropical facultative ant–plant mutualism?

(2010) R. J. Bixenmann et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

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

Ant–plant interaction in the Neotropical savanna: direct beneficial effects of extrafloral nectar on ant colony fitness

(2010) Jonas Byk et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

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

Regulation of extrafloral nectar secretion by jasmonates in lima bean is light dependent

(2010) V. Radhika et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High diversity of ants foraging on extrafloral nectar of bromeliads in the Atlantic rainforest of southern Brazil

(2010) Volker S. Schmid et al.   STUDIES ON NEOTROPICAL FAUNA AND ENVIRONMENT

Nutritional aspects of non-prey foods in the life histories of predaceous Coccinellidae

(2009) Jonathan G. Lundgren   BIOLOGICAL CONTROL

Mega-phylogeny approach for comparative biology: an alternative to supertree and supermatrix approaches

(2009) Stephen A Smith et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III

(2009)   BOTANICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Chemical communication and coevolution in an ant–plant mutualism

(2009) Martin Heil et al.   CHEMOECOLOGY

Elevated dominance of extrafloral nectary-bearing plants is associated with increased abundances of an invasive ant and reduced native ant richness

(2009) Amy M. Savage et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

Extrafloral nectaries alter arthropod community structure and mediate peach (Prunus persica) plant defense

(2009) Clarissa R. Mathews et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

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

(2009) J. H. Ness et al.   ECOLOGY

Quantitative synthesis of context dependency in ant–plant protection mutualisms

(2009) Scott A. Chamberlain et al.   ECOLOGY

Convergent evolution of seed dispersal by ants, and phylogeny and biogeography in flowering plants: A global survey

(2009) Szabolcs Lengyel et al.   PERSPECTIVES IN PLANT ECOLOGY EVOLUTION AND SYSTEMATICS

Ants Sow the Seeds of Global Diversification in Flowering Plants

(2009) Szabolcs Lengyel et al.   PLoS One

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

(2009) Lori Lach et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

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

Phylogenetic relationships among seed plants: Persistent questions and the limits of molecular data

(2008) Sarah Mathews   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Simulated herbivory induces extrafloral nectary production inPrunus avium

(2008) C. E. Pulice et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Morphological patterns of extrafloral nectaries in woody plant species of the Braziliancerrado

(2008) S. R. Machado et al.   PLANT BIOLOGY