| Title: | Plant chemical mediation of ant behavior |
| Author(s): | Nelson AS; Carvajal Acosta N; Mooney KA; |
| Address: | "Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, United States; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 319, Crested Butte, CO 81224, United States. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, United States. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Irvine, 321 Steinhaus Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, United States; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, PO Box 319, Crested Butte, CO 81224, United States. Electronic address: mooneyk@uci.edu" |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cois.2018.12.003 |
| Abstract: | "Ants are ecologically dominant members of terrestrial communities. Ant foraging is often strongly associated with plants and depends upon associative learning of chemicals in the environment. As a result, plant chemicals can affect ant behaviors and, in so doing, have strong multi-trophic indirect effects. Plant chemicals mediate ant behaviors in the contexts of floral visitation, seed dispersal and predation, leaf cutting, interactions with ant-mutualist host plants, interactions with mutualist and prey insects in plant canopies, and plant predation of ants by carnivorous plants. Here, we review what is known about these differing contexts in which plant chemicals influence ant behavior, the mechanisms by which ants are affected by plant chemicals, and future directions within these topics" |
| Keywords: | "Animals Ants/*physiology Behavior, Animal/*drug effects Food Chain Insecta Plant Physiological Phenomena Plants/*chemistry Volatile Organic Compounds;" |
| Notes: | "MedlineNelson, Annika S Carvajal Acosta, Nalleli Mooney, Kailen A eng Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Review Netherlands 2019/05/23 Curr Opin Insect Sci. 2019 Apr; 32:98-103. doi: 10.1016/j.cois.2018.12.003. Epub 2019 Jan 3" |
