Nutritional ecology: a first vegetarian spider.
Mutualisms are ubiquitous in nature and equally commonplace is their exploitation. A well-known mutualism has been found to be exploited from a surprising source: the first described vegetarian spider dines on trophic structures produced by acacia trees to reward their mutualistic protective ants.
Jackson
Duncan E
DE
Department of Computer Science, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Co. Antrim, BT37 0QB, UK. drdejackson@yahoo.co.uk
D000818:Animals; D001000:Ants; D003364:Costa Rica; D007887:Fabaceae; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D008800:Mexico; D019370:Observation; D012919:Social Behavior; D013112:Spiders / Q000502:physiology*; D013559:Symbiosis