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Abstract
Plants that host ANTS by providing shelter in specialized nesting structures or domatia (e.g., Beltian or Mullerian bodies) and sometimes provide food (e.g., food and pearl bodies; and EXTRAFLORAL NECTARS). Ant colony in turn provides the host plant with defense against encroaching foliage, nutrients via waste by-product and help with SEED DISPERSAL.
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- Ant Plants
- Ant-Plants
- Myrmecophytic Ant-Plants
- Myrmecophytic Plants
- Ant Plant
- Ant-Plant
- Ant-Plant, Myrmecophytic
- Ant-Plants, Myrmecophytic
- Myrmecophyte
- Myrmecophytic Ant Plants
- Myrmecophytic Ant-Plant
- Myrmecophytic Plant
- Plant, Ant
- Plant, Myrmecophytic
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Indexed with the subheadings adverse effects, anatomy & histology, chemistry, classification, cytology, drug effects, embryology, enzymology, genetics, growth & development, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, parasitology, physiology, poisoning, radiation effects, toxicity, ultrastructure, virology.
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2024
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Myrmecophytes. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000097543. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000097543
- Myrmecophytes. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecophyte
- Myrmecophytes. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q460973