| Title | Nutritional ecology: a first vegetarian spider. | | Author(s) | Jackson DE | | Institution | Department of Computer Science, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, UK. | | Source | Curr Biol 2009 Oct 13; 19(19):R894-5. | | Abstract | 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. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 19825349 |
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