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Yek, Sze Huei, Deniece Yin Chia Yeo, Suyee Sophia Tai, and Zhi Hoong Wong. "Obligate Ant-Associated Macaranga bancana is Better Protected from Herbivory Than Facultative Ant-Associated Macaranga tanarius." Journal of Tropical Biology & Conservation (JTBC) 20 (October 15, 2023): 45–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.51200/jtbc.v20i.4640.

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Protective mutualism between ant and Macaranga plants are complex between-species interactions found only in the tropical environment. In such interactions, plants provide housing structures (in the form of domatia) and food (in the form of food bodies) to their ant symbionts. In return, the ants protect their Macaranga plant hosts against herbivore attacks. Macaranga ant protective mutualism is manifested in a wide range of interactions, from facultative to obligate. In facultative interactions, Macaranga plants attract predatory ants to the plant via food rewards. In return, foraging ants ma

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Nomura, M., T. Itioka, and K. Murase. "Non-ant antiherbivore defenses before plant-ant colonization in Macaranga myrmecophytes." Population Ecology 43, no. 3 (2001): 207–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10144-001-8184-6.

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Handa, Chihiro. "How Do Scale Insects Settle into the Nests of Plant-Ants on Macaranga Myrmecophytes? Dispersal by Wind and Selection by Plant-Ants." Sociobiology 59, no. 2 (2014): 435. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v59i2.607.

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This report elucidates the process of settlement by Coccus scale insects into Crematogaster plant-ant nests formed inside the hollow stems of a myrmecophytic species, Macaranga bancana, in a tropical rain forest. We collected wafting scale insect nymphs from the canopy using sticky traps and characterized the DNA sequence of the trapped nymphs. In addition, we experimentally introduced first-instar nymphs of both symbiotic and nonsymbiotic scale insects to M. bancana seedlings with newly formed plant-ant colonies. Nymphs of symbiotic species were generally carried by ants into their nests with

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Yamasaki, E., Y. Inui, and S. Sakai. "Ant-repelling pollinators: Unique pollination strategy of the ant-plant Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)." South African Journal of Botany 86 (May 2013): 168–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2013.02.113.

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Fiala, Brigitte, Ulrich Maschwitz, and K. Eduard Linsenmair. "Macaranga caladiifolia, a New Type of Ant-Plant Among Southeast Asian Myrmecophytic Macaranga Species." Biotropica 28, no. 3 (1996): 408. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2389206.

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Fiala, Brigitte, Harald Grunsky, Ulrich Maschwitz, and K. Eduard Linsenmair. "Diversity of ant-plant interactions: protective efficacy in Macaranga species with different degrees of ant association." Oecologia 97, no. 2 (1994): 186–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00323148.

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Fiala, B., and U. Maschwitz. "Studies on the south east Asian ant-plant associationCrematogaster borneensis/Macaranga: Adaptations of the ant partner." Insectes Sociaux 37, no. 3 (1990): 212–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf02224049.

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Yek, Sze Huei. "Ant-plant symbioses trade-offs and its role in forest restoration projects." Research Ideas and Outcomes 8 (September 27, 2022): e94784. https://doi.org/10.3897/rio.8.e94784.

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Ant-plant symbioses are complex between-species interactions found only in the tropical environment. Typically, in such symbioses, plants provide housing structures and food to their ant symbionts. In return, the ants protect their plants' host against herbivore attack and additional nutrients to help with plants' growth. These win-win interactions range from facultative to obligate mutualism. This proposal aims to test the three main mechanisms: (1) by-product benefits, (2) partner fidelity feedback and (3) partner choice in stabilising the ant-plant mutualism. Understanding the mechanisms ar

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Moog, U., B. Fiala, W. Federle, and U. Maschwitz. "Thrips pollination of the dioecious ant plant Macaranga hullettii (Euphorbiaceae) in Southeast Asia." American Journal of Botany 89, no. 1 (2002): 50–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3732/ajb.89.1.50.

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Heil, Martin, Daniel Feil, Andrea Hilpert, and K. Eduard Linsenmair. "Spatiotemporal patterns in indirect defence of a South-East Asian ant-plant support the optimal defence hypothesis." Journal of Tropical Ecology 20, no. 5 (2004): 573–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467404001567.

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The optimal defence hypothesis predicts that plant parts characterized by a high value and/or a high risk of being attacked should exhibit the highest level of defence. We tested this hypothesis with Macaranga bancana ant-plants, which are protected efficiently by resident, mutualistic ants from herbivores, parasites and encroaching vegetation. Because cost-effective defence of the host by ants increases ant fitness, selection should act on ant behaviour to produce patterns of distribution of defence as predicted for direct chemical defence traits. Termites and pieces of tape were equally dist

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Feldhaar, H., B. Fiala, Rosli bin Hashim, and U. Maschwitz. "Maintaining an ant-plant symbiosis: secondary polygyny in the Macaranga triloba-Crematogaster sp. association." Naturwissenschaften 87, no. 9 (2000): 408–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s001140050751.

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Itino, Takao, Takao Itioka, Aya Hatada, and Abang Abdul Hamid. "Effects of food rewards offered by ant-plant Macaranga on the colony size of ants." Ecological Research 16, no. 4 (2001): 775–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1703.2001.00433.x.

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HANDA, Chihiro, and Itiokai TAKAO. "Effects of symbiotic coccid on the plant-ant colony growth in the myrmecophyte Macaranga bancana." Tropics 19, no. 4 (2011): 139–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3759/tropics.19.139.

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Fiala, Brigitte, Ulrich Maschwitz, Tho Yow Pong, and Andreas J. Helbig. "Studies of a South East Asian ant-plant association: protection of Macaranga trees by Crematogaster borneensis." Oecologia 79, no. 4 (1989): 463–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00378662.

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Vogel, Miriam, Gudrun Bänfer, Ute Moog, and Kurt Weising. "Development and characterization of chloroplast microsatellite markers in Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)." Genome 46, no. 5 (2003): 845–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/g03-068.

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As part of our study on the phylogeography of the ant-plant genus Macaranga, we have screened for polymorphic regions in the chloroplast genome. Initially, ten universal PCR primer pairs targeted at chloroplast microsatellite loci were applied to a small set of specimens, covering various taxonomic levels from intrafamilial to intraspecific. Eight primer pairs produced PCR fragments that behaved as single and discrete bands on agarose gels. The five most promising candidate pairs were further analysed with an extended set of DNA templates, and PCR products were separated on sequencing gels. Th

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Federle, W., K. Rohrseitz, and B. Holldobler. "Attachment forces of ants measured with a centrifuge: better ‘wax-runners’ have a poorer attachment to a smooth surface." Journal of Experimental Biology 203, no. 3 (2000): 505–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/jeb.203.3.505.

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The symbiotic ant partners of glaucous Macaranga ant-plants show an exceptional capacity to run on the slippery epicuticular wax crystals covering the plant stem without any difficulty. We test the hypothesis that these specialised ‘wax-runners’ have a general, superior attachment capacity. We compared attachment on a smooth surface for 11 ant species with different wax-running capacities. The maximum force that could be withstood before an ant became detached was quantified using a centrifuge recorded by a high-speed video camera. This technique has the advantage of causing minimum disruption

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Federle, W., U. Maschwitz, and B. Fiala. "The two-partner ant-plant system of Camponotus (Colobopsis) sp. 1 and Macaranga puncticulata (Euphorbiaceae): natural history of the exceptional ant partner." Insectes Sociaux 45, no. 1 (1998): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s000400050064.

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Heil, Martin, Brigitte Fiala, K. Eduard Linsenmair, Gerhard Zotz, and Petra Menke. "Food Body Production in Macaranga Triloba (Euphorbiaceae): A Plant Investment in Anti-Herbivore Defence via Symbiotic Ant Partners." Journal of Ecology 85, no. 6 (1997): 847. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2960606.

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Federle, Walter, Ulrich Maschwitz, and Bert Hölldobler. "Pruning of host plant neighbours as defence against enemy ant invasions: Crematogaster ant partners of Macaranga protected by "wax barriers" prune less than their congeners." Oecologia 132, no. 2 (2002): 264–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00442-002-0947-z.

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FIALA, BRIGITTE, ARMIN JAKOB, ULRICH MASCHWITZ, and K. EDUARD LINSENMAIR. "Diversity, evolutionary specialization and geographic distribution of a mutualistic ant-plant complex: Macaranga and Crematogaster in South East Asia." Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66, no. 3 (1999): 305–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1999.tb01893.x.

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Murase, Kaori, Takao Itioka, Yoko Inui, and Takao Itino. "Species specificity in settling-plant selection by foundress ant queens in Macaranga–Crematogaster myrmecophytism in a Bornean dipterocarp forest." Journal of Ethology 20, no. 1 (2002): 19–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10164-002-0049-8.

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Heil, Martin, Andrea Hilpert, Ralf Krüger, and K. Eduard Linsenmair. "Competition among visitors to extrafloral nectaries as a source of ecological costs of an indirect defence." Journal of Tropical Ecology 20, no. 2 (2004): 201–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s026646740300110x.

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Extrafloral nectar is an indirect, generally ant-mediated, defence mechanism that is particularly common in tropical plants. This study focuses on interactions among different groups of arthropods visiting extrafloral nectaries of the South-East Asian myrmecophilic plant, Macaranga tanarius. The diurnal activity patterns of arthropods on nectaries were recorded on two occasions, each plant being used once in an untreated state and once after chemical induction of extrafloral nectar flow. Ants, widely regarded as the most important consumers of extrafloral nectar, made up only 60% of all nectar

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Heil, M., T. Koch, A. Hilpert, B. Fiala, W. Boland, and K. E. Linsenmair. "Extrafloral nectar production of the ant-associated plant, Macaranga tanarius, is an induced, indirect, defensive response elicited by jasmonic acid." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98, no. 3 (2001): 1083–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.98.3.1083.

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Quek, Swee-Peck, Stuart J. Davies, Takao Itino, and Naomi E. Pierce. "CODIVERSIFICATION IN AN ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM: STEM TEXTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST USE IN CREMATOGASTER (FORMICIDAE: MYRMICINAE) INHABITANTS OF MACARANGA (EUPHORBIACEAE)." Evolution 58, no. 3 (2004): 554. http://dx.doi.org/10.1554/03-361.

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Quek, Swee-Peck, Stuart J. Davies, Takao Itino, and Naomi E. Pierce. "CODIVERSIFICATION IN AN ANT-PLANT MUTUALISM: STEM TEXTURE AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST USE IN CREMATOGASTER (FORMICIDAE: MYRMICINAE) INHABITANTS OF MACARANGA (EUPHORBIACEAE)." Evolution 58, no. 3 (2004): 554–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.0014-3820.2004.tb01678.x.

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Heckroth, Hans-Peter, Brigitte Fiala, Penny J. Gullan, Azarae HJ Idris, and Ulrich Maschwitz. "The soft scale (Coccidae) associates of Malaysian ant-plants." Journal of Tropical Ecology 14, no. 4 (1998): 427–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266467498000327.

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Myrmecophytic species of the Paleotropical plant genus Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae) have hollow stems that are almost always occupied by ants of the genus Crematogaster and scale insects of the family Coccidae (Hemiptera: Coccoidea). The coccids have a cryptic endophytic lifestyle and are confined to this microhabitat. They are much more diverse than previously recognised. First data are presented on the diversity, prevalence, specificity and distribution of the coccids associated with myrmecophytic Macaranga species. Twenty-two species of Coccidae in total, including 15 previously unknown from M

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Nomura, Masahiro, Aya Hatada, and Takao Itioka. "Correlation between the leaf turnover rate and anti-herbivore defence strategy (balance between ant and non-ant defences) amongst ten species of Macaranga (Euphorbiaceae)." Plant Ecology 212, no. 1 (2010): 143–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11258-010-9810-1.

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Feldhaar, Heike, Ulrich Maschwitz, and Brigitte Fiala. "Taxonomic Revision of the Obligate Plant-Ants of the Genus Crematogaster Lund (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae), Associated with Macaranga Thouars (Euphorbiaceae) on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula." Sociobiology 63, no. 1 (2016): 651. http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/sociobiology.v63i1.949.

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The taxonomy and natural history of ants of the genus Crematogaster Lund, 1831 (Crematogaster borneensis-group of the former subgenus Decacrema) obligately associated with myrmecophytic host-plants of the euphorb genus Macaranga are reviewed. Within this group of ants Crematogaster borneensis André, 1896 (with five subspecies and four varieties), Crematogaster captiosa Forel, 1910 as well as Crematogaster decamera Forel, 1910 have previously been described from SE Asia. Here we synonymise C. borneensis subsp. capax Forel, 1911, C. borneensis subsp. hosei Forel, 1911, C. borneensis subsp. sembi

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Sudhaus, Walter. "THE GUILD OF SAPROBIONTIC NEMATODES ASSOCIATED WITH ANTS (FORMICOIDEA)." Ecologica Montenegrina 7 (December 29, 2016): 600–613. http://dx.doi.org/10.37828/em.2016.7.28.

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At least 14 different saprobiontic species of Rhabditida are intimately associated with ants on different continents. These myrmecophilous nematodes belong in particular to Diploscapter and Sclerorhabditis, and to the Oscheius Dolichura group (all "Rhabditidae"). Species of Diplogastridae and Halicephalobus (Panagrolaimidae) are rarely found in association with ants, but some records do exist. Oscheius janeti is argued here to be a separate species. Dauerlarvae of all these species invade the postpharyngeal glands of ants via the mouth (including as a result of trophallaxis) and, after some ti

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Chowdhury, Ritabrata, T. Ulmar Grafe, Faizah Metali, and Walter Federle. "Arms race of physical defences: hooked trichomes of Macaranga ant-plants kill lycaenid caterpillars, but one specialist has a counter-defence." Biology Letters 21, no. 6 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2025.0005.

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The coevolution of insects and chemical plant defences has been described as an arms race, but it is unclear whether physical plant defences can produce similar outcomes. Here, we report a previously unknown interaction from the mutualism between ants and Macaranga trees. Although Macaranga trees are well protected against herbivory by aggressive ants, caterpillars of the genus Arhopala (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) can feed on the leaves by appeasing the ants with nectar-like secretions. One ant-plant species, M. trachyphylla , bears hooked trichomes on its green surfaces. When placed on M. trach

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Dixit, Nadi M., and Daniela Guicking. "Exploring the evolutionary dynamics of myrmecophytism: Perspectives from the Southeast Asian Macaranga ant-plant symbiosis." Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, February 2024, 108028. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108028.

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