Humans and their Environments
Ants and Acacias: ecology and evolutionary biology of a mutualism - two stories: your professor, and biology
Lecture 130 August 2022
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Janzen,1980coevolution.pdf
Janzen,1984Crafoord.pdf
Janzen,1966coevolution.pdf
the ant and the acacia
coevolution
camel and non-ant-acacia
thorns on non-ant-acacia
Acacia ruddaei
twig, non-acacia-ants
ant-acacia distribution
an ant-acacia
ant-acacia leaves & thorns
ant-acacia swollen thorns
new ant-acacia thorns
green thorn interior
ant-acacia foliar nectaries
sugar from foliar nectaries
Beltian bodies
rainy season dry forest
dry season dry forest
leafy in the dry season
Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants
an entire acacia-ant colony
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