Sentence examples for ag plants from inspiring English sources

C. femoratus did not carry seeds of non-AG congeners of AG plants [5, EY pers. obs.].

On the other hand, Davidson [5] presented seeds of three species of AG plants, with putative food rewards intact, to single colonies of four generalist non-AG ant species; three of those ant species (Camponotus sericeiventris (Guérin-Méneville), Dolichoderus attelaboides (Fabricius) and Cephalotes spinosus (Mayr)) did not carry AG seeds, while a fourth (Dolichoderus bidens (Linnaeus)) did.

One striking feature of the AG symbiosis is the taxonomic diversity of its participants, and here we ask whether seeds of different AG plants use the same or different chemistry to elicit seed-carrying in the AG ant C. femoratus.

Our experiments do not address the possibility of vertebrates removing seeds directly from the AG plants.

For AG plants, establishment opportunities may occur mainly when carton is added to existing nests or when new nests are initiated.

Finally, there is some evidence that ants may later build carton nests around AG plants that establish independently [30, G. Mathieu personal communication].

We therefore assumed that P. macrostachya was a representative AG plant central to the AG mutualism, and used freshly collected mature P. macrostachya seeds in all seed removal experiments described below.

Seed extracts of three AG plant species, A. gracile, C. uleana, and P. macrostachya, were subjected to seed-carrying assays in the field in 2004 and 2005.

No common compounds were detected among AG seed extracts, suggesting that as we also conclude for Neotropical AGs the taxonomically diverse Southeast Asian AG plant species rely upon different compounds to elicit retrieval by ants [43].

Here we examine the specificity of the ant-seed interaction by comparing the ant community observed at general food baits to ants attracted to and removing seeds of the AG plant Peperomia macrostachya.

The stems of jba-1D/+er-20 ag-1 plares arextremelyly fasciated and the IMs develop flowers lacking stamens and carpels (Fig. 5K,L).