Increased host investment in extrafloral nectar (EFN) improves the efficiency of a mutualistic defensive service.
Extrafloral nectar (EFN) plays an important role as plant indirect defence through the attraction of defending ants. Like all rewards produced in the context of a mutualism, however, EFN is in danger of being exploited by non-ant consumers that do not defend the plant against herbivores. Here we ask...
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Auteurs principaux: | Marcia González-Teuber, Juan Carlos Silva Bueno, Martin Heil, Wilhelm Boland |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012
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