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The Royal Society
The causes of biological gigantism have received much attention, but only for individual organisms. What selection pressures might favour the evolution of gigantic societies? Here we consider the largest singlequeen insect societies, those of the Old World army ant Dorylus, single colonies of which can have 20 million workers. We propose that colony gigantism in Dorylus arises as a result of an...
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Identifying the factors that control population dynamics in migratory animals has been constrained by our inability to track individuals throughout the annual cycle. Using stable carbon isotopes, we show that the reproductive success of a long-distance migratory bird is influenced by the quality of habitat located thousands of kilometres away on tropical wintering grounds. For male American red...
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Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis Nicole M. Gerardo'*, Ulrich G. Mueller', Shauna L. Price' and Cameron R. Currie' 1 Section of Integrative Biology, Patterson Laboratories, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712, USA 2 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama Department of Ecology and Evo...
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Bates hypothesized that some butterfly species that are palatable gain protection firom prédation by appearing similar to distasteful butterflies. When undisturbed, distasteñil butterflies fly slowly and in a straight line, and palatable Batesian mimics also adopt this nonchalant behaviour. When seized by predators, distasteñil butterflies are defended by toxic or nauseous chemicals. Lacking ch...
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Fungus-growing ants, their cultivated fungi and the cultivar-attacking parasite Escovopsis coevolve as a complex community. Higher-level phylogenetic congruence of the symbionts suggests specialized long-term associations of host-parasite clades but reveals little about parasite specificity at finer scales of speciesspecies and genotype-genot5^e interactions. By coupling sequence and amplified ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1879
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/019364a0