Formation and structure of food bodies in Cordia nodosa (Boraginaceae)
| Autor: | Alain Dejean, Pascal-Jean Solano, Monique Belin-Depoux |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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Mutualism (biology)
Cordia General Immunology and Microbiology biology Ants General Medicine Boraginaceae biology.organism_classification Cordia nodosa Animal Feed General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Myrmecophily Food body Myrmecophyte Botany Vacuoles Nectar Animals General Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Zdroj: | Comptes rendus biologies. 328(7) |
| ISSN: | 1631-0691 |
| Popis: | Cordia nodosa Lamark (Boraginaceae) is a myrmecophyte (i.e., plants housing ants in hollow structures) that provisions associated ants with food bodies (FBs) produced 24 h a day. Distributed over all the young parts of the plants, they induce ants to forage continually and so to protect the plants. Metabolites are stored in the inner cells of C. nodosa FBs as they form. In addition the peripheral cells have an extrafloral nectary-like function and secrete a substance that covers the FBs. The amalgam of these two functions, distinct in other known cases, is discussed taking into account the origin of FBs and extrafloral nectaries. To cite this article: P.-J. Solano et al., C. R. Biologies 328 (2005). |
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