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Nutritional ecology: a first vegetarian spider. Current biology : CB [Curr Biol] Journal article

 
Jackson DE 
Nutritional ecology: a first vegetarian spider. [Journal Article]
Curr Biol 2009 Oct 13; 19(19):R894-5.


Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature and equally commonplace is their exploitation. A well-known mutualism has been found to be exploited from a surprising source: the first described vegetarian spider dines on trophic structures produced by acacia trees to reward their mutualistic protective ants.



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