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    • The Direct and Ecological Costs of an Ant-Plant Symbiosis 

      Frederickson, Megan E.; Ravenscraft, Alison; Miller, Gabriel; Hernández, Lina M. Arcila; Booth, Gregory; Pierce, Naomi Ellen (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
      How strong is selection for cheating in mutualisms? The answer depends on the type and magnitude of the costs of the mutualism. Here we investigated the direct and ecological costs of plant defense by ants in the association ...