Leaf-Cutting Ants (Formicidae, Attini) Prune Their Fungus to Increase and Direct Its Productivity
- 1 February 1996
- journal article
- Published by JSTOR in Functional Ecology
- Vol. 10 (1) , 55
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2390262
Abstract
1. The mutualistic fungus of leaf-cutting ants produces ant rewards in the form of nutritive bundles of hyphae called staphylae. We studied how worker activitie...Keywords
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