Weve Got Ants In Our Plants

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonate • What is this? A forest for ANTS?! Deep Look: • The Double-Crossing Ants to Whom Frie... • Don’t miss our next video! SUBSCRIBE! ►► http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub • ↓↓↓ More info and sources below ↓↓↓ • Want to wear your love for science? We’ve got merch: http://dftba.com/besmart • Follow Aaron Pomerantz: http://www.thenextgenscientist.com/ • Twitter: @aaronpomerantz • Special thanks to Dr. Corrie Moreau from The Field Museum for helpful discussions while we were making this episode! • References/Learn More: • Edwards, David P., et al. A plant needs ants like a dog needs fleas: Myrmelachista schumanni ants gall many tree species to create housing. The American Naturalist 174.5 (2009): 734-740. • Frederickson, Megan E. Conflict over Reproduction in an Ant‐Plant Symbiosis: Why Allomerus octoarticulatus Ants Sterilize Cordia nodosa Trees. The American Naturalist 173.5 (2009): 675-681. • Frederickson, Megan E., and Deborah M. Gordon. The intertwined population biology of two Amazonian myrmecophytes and their symbiotic ants. Ecology 90.6 (2009): 1595-1607. • Haddad Junior, Vidal, Luiz Roberto Hernandes Bicudo, and Adílson Fransozo. The Triplaria tree (Triplaris spp) and Pseudomyrmex ants: a symbiotic relationship with risks of attack for humans. Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical 42.6 (2009): 727-729 • Heil, Martin, et al. Partner manipulation stabilises a horizontally transmitted mutualism. Ecology letters 17.2 (2014): 185-192. • Hölldobler, Bert, and Edward O. Wilson. The ants. Harvard University Press, 1990. • Sanchez, Adriana, and Edwin Bellota. Protection against herbivory in the mutualism between Pseudomyrmex dendroicus (Formicidae) and Triplaris americana (Polygonaceae). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 46 (2015): 71. • Solano, Pascal-Jean, Monique Belin-Depoux, and Alain Dejean. Formation and structure of food bodies in Cordia nodosa (Boraginaceae). Comptes rendus biologies 328.7 (2005): 642-647. • Yu, Douglas W., and Naomi E. Pierce. A castration parasite of an ant–plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 265.1394 (1998): 375-382. • ---------------- • It’s Okay To Be Smart is written and hosted by Joe Hanson, Ph.D. • Have an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below! • Facebook: / itsokaytobesmart • Twitter: / okaytobesmart • / jtotheizzoe • Tumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com • Instagram: / jtotheizzoe • Snapchat: YoDrJoe • • Produced by PBS Digital Studios • Music via APM • Stock images from SciencePhoto http://www.sciencephoto.com/ and Shutterstock http://www.shutterstock.com

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