Ant-Acacia Plant Providing for a Helpful Resident (IMAGE)

University of Pennsylvania

Ant-Acacia Plant Providing for a Helpful Resident

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A founding queen acacia-ant (Pseudomyrmex ferruginea) cuts her first entrance hole into the swollen thorn (Vachellia cornigera) in which she will start her colony, the first thorn made by this young seedling ant-acacia in Veracruz, Mexico, 1962. Scientists from Penn have made new insights into the genetic drivers of this mutualistic relationship.

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D. H. Janzen

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