Obligate Ant-Associated Macaranga bancana is Better Protected from Herbivory Than Facultative Ant-Associated Macaranga tanarius
Protective mutualism between ant and Macaranga plants are complex between species interactions found only in the tropical environment. In such interactions, plants provide housing structures (in the form of domatia) and food (in the form of food bodies) to their ant symbionts. In return, the ants pr...
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Main Authors: | Sze, Huei Yek, Yin, Deniece Chia Yeo, Suyee Sophia Tai, Zhi, Hoong Wong |
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Language: | English English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sabah
2023
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Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38045/1/ABSTRACT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38045/2/FULL%20TEXT.pdf https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/38045/ https://doi.org/10.51200/jtbc.v20i.4640 |
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