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Masaru K Hojo1, Ari Yamamoto2, Toshiharu Akino2

  • 1Faculty of Agriculture, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa, Japan ; Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyoto, Japan ; Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Plos One
|February 4, 2014
PubMed
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Ants learn to recognize and cooperate with caterpillar partners through chemical cues. This selective learning, based on specific hydrocarbon signals, is crucial for maintaining ant-caterpillar mutualisms.

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