Plant-ants use resistance-related plant odours to assess host quality before colony founding - Razo-Belman, Rosario; Molina-Torres, Jorge; Martínez, Octavio; Heil, Martin (The Journal of ecology, 2018)
Keywords: Acacia; Ants; ant–plant interaction; Bacteria; Body condition; Crosstalk; Cues; Disease resistance; Eggs; females; host choice; Host plants; host preferences; host quality; Hosts; interspecific communication; Limonene; Linalool; Mutualism; Myrmecophily; myrmecophyte; Odor; Odors; Odour; Organic compounds; pathogen resistance; pathogens; Physiology; Plant-herbivore interactions; Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus; Quality; Quality assessment; Reinforcement; signal; Species; swollen‐thorn acacia; Symbiosis; Terpinene; VOCs; Volatile organic compounds; Wings