Journal article
An ant–plant mutualism through the lens of cGMP-dependent kinase genes
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In plant–animal mutualisms, how an animal forages often determines how much benefit its plant partner receives. In many animals, foraging behaviour changes in response to foraging gene expression or activation of the cGMP-dependent protein kinase (PKG) that foraging encodes. Here, we show that this highly conserved molecular mechanism affects the outcome of a plant– animal mutualism.We studied the two PKG genes of Allomerus octoarticulatus, anAmazonian ant that defends the ant–plant Cordia no...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
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Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Royal Society Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Journal website
- Volume:
- 284
- Issue:
- 1862
- Pages:
- 20170896
- Publication date:
- 2017-09-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-08-04
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- EISSN:
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1471-2954
- ISSN:
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0962-8452
- Source identifiers:
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736281
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- 2017-10-16
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- 2017
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