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Access to reproduction is determined by an individual’s dominance rank in many species and is achieved through aggression and/or dominance signalling. In eusocial insects one or several dominant femal
In plant–ant–hemipteran interactions, ants visit plants to consume the honeydew produced by phloem-feeding hemipterans. If genetically based differences in plant phloem chemistry change the chemical c