Browsing Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute by Author "Inouye, Brian D."

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Asymmetric Dispersal and Colonization Success of Amazonian Plant-Ants Queens

Bruna, Emilio M.; Izzo, Thiago J.; Inouye, Brian D.; Uriarte, Maria; Vasconcelos, Heraldo L. (2011)

Background: The dispersal ability of queens is central to understanding ant life-history evolution, and plays a fundamental role in ant population and community dynamics, the maintenance of genetic diversity, and the spread ...
Recognition of Host Plant Volatiles by Pheidole minutula Mayr (Myrmicinae), an Amazonian Ant-Plant Specialist

Dattilo, Wesley F. C.; Izzo, Thiago J.; Inouye, Brian D.; Vasconcelos, Heraldo L.; Bruna, Emilio M. (2009)

In the tropics, several ant species are obligate inhabitants of leaf pouches and other specialized structures in plants known as myrmecophytes. However, the cues used by ant queens to locate suitable host-plants following ...

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