Ants and Acacias: ecology and evolutionary biology of a mutualism - two stories: your professor, and biology

1 the ant and the acacia
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2 coevolution
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3 camel and non-ant-acacia
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4 thorns on non-ant-acacia
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5 Acacia ruddaei
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6 twig, non-acacia-ants
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7 ant-acacia distribution
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8 an ant-acacia
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9 ant-acacia leaves & thorns
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10 ant-acacia swollen thorns
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11 new ant-acacia thorns
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12 green thorn interior
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13 ant-acacia foliar nectaries
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14 sugar from foliar nectaries
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15 Beltian bodies
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16 rainy season dry forest
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17 dry season dry forest
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18 leafy in the dry season
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19 Pseudomyrmex acacia-ants
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20 an entire acacia-ant colony
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21 first step
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22 second step
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23 third step
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24 fourth step
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25 fourth step close up
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26 fifth step
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27 sixth step
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28 seventh step
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29 colony queen
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30 eighth step
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31 acacia-ant calling
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32 acacia-ant mating
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33 ant-acacia establishment
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34 acacia-ant fruits
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35 inflorescence & bee
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36 mature fruit
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37 seedling ant-acacia
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38 stunted seedling/sapling
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39 queen cutting an entrance
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40 young colony, young plant
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41 massive growth
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42 senescence
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43 ant patrolling
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44 acacia-ant attack of insects
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45 acacia-ant attack of insects
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46 William Morton Wheeler
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47 natural unoccupancy
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48 natural occupancy
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49 experiment: step I
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50 experiment: step 2
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51 experiment: step 3, 45 days
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52 experiment: step 3, 45 days
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53 experiment: step 4, 12 mo
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54 experiment: step 4, 12 mo
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55 herbivores of ant-acacias
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56 herbivores of ant-acacias
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57 shade and ant-acacias
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58 shade and the ant-acacias
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59 vines and the ant-acacia
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60 vines and the ant-acacia
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61 keeping vines off
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62 keeping vines off
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63 basal circles
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64 serendipitous consequence
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65 impact of shade
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66 impact of no shade
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67 large herbivores
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68 are ant-acacias edible?
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69 thorns do not stop deer
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70 thorns do protect some
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71 not coevolved
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72 a caterpillar
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73 caterpillar and ant-acacias
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74 Syssphinx mexicana
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75 the adult and oviposition
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76 eggs and colony odor
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77 a beetle
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78 the beetle
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79 commensals & parasites
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80 birds
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