Tetraponeraants have gut symbionts related to nitrogen–fixing root–nodule bacteria
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Tetraponera ants have gut symbionts related to nitrogen-fixing root-nodule bacteria.
Some Tetraponera ants (Formicidae, Pseudomyrmecinae) subsist almost entirely on amino acid deficient honeydew secretions of pseudococcids and harbour a dense aggregation of bacterial symbionts in a unique pouch-shaped organ at the junction of the midgut and the intestine. The organ is surrounded by a network of intruding tracheae and Malpighian tubules, suggesting that these bacteria are involv...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0962-8452,1471-2954
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2101