A Carnivorous Plant Fed by Its Ant Symbiont: a Unique Multi-Faceted Nutritional Mutualism Vincent Bazile, Jonathan A
A Carnivorous Plant Fed by Its Ant Symbiont: A Unique Multi-Faceted Nutritional Mutualism Vincent Bazile, Jonathan A. Moran, Gilles Le Moguedec, David J. Marshall, Laurence Gaume To cite this version: Vincent Bazile, Jonathan A. Moran, Gilles Le Moguedec, David J. Marshall, Laurence Gaume. A Carnivorous Plant Fed by Its Ant Symbiont: A Unique Multi-Faceted Nutritional Mutualism. PLoS ONE, Public Library of Science, 2012, 7 (3), pp.e36179. 10.1371/journal.pone.0036179. halsde- 00700037 HAL Id: halsde-00700037 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/halsde-00700037 Submitted on 29 May 2020 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. A Carnivorous Plant Fed by Its Ant Symbiont: A Unique Multi-Faceted Nutritional Mutualism Vincent Bazile1*, Jonathan A. Moran4, Gilles Le Mogue´dec1,2, David J. Marshall5, Laurence Gaume1,3 1 Universite´ Montpellier II, UMR AMAP: Botanique et bioinformatique de l’architecture des plantes, Montpellier, France, 2 INRA, UMR AMAP: Botanique et bioinformatique de l’architecture des plantes, Montpellier, France, 3 CNRS, UMR AMAP: Botanique et bioinformatique de l’architecture des plantes, Montpellier, France, 4 School of Environment and Sustainability, Royal Roads University, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, 5 Biology Department, University of Brunei Darussalam, Gadong, Brunei Darussalam Abstract Scarcity of essential nutrients has led plants to evolve alternative nutritional strategies, such as myrmecotrophy (ant-waste- derived nutrition) and carnivory (invertebrate predation).
[Show full text]