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Allometric scaling of patrolling rate and nest volume in Constrictotermes cyphe...
DeSouza, Og; Araújo, Ana Paula Albano; Florencio, Daniela Faria; Rosa, Cassiano Sousa; Marins, Alessandra; Costa, Diogo AndradeStructural and functional traits of organisms are known to be related to the size of individuals and to the size of their colonies when they belong to one. Among such traits, propensity to inquilinism in termites is known to relate positively to colony size. Larger termitaria hold larger diversity of facultative inquilines than smaller nests, whereas obligate inquilines seem unable to settle in nests smaller th...
Diet segregation between cohabiting builder and inquiline termite species
Florencio, Daniela Faria; Marins, Alessandra; Rosa, Cassiano Sousa; Araújo, Ana Paula Albano; Silva, Ivo Ribeiro; DeSouza, Og; Cristaldo, Paulo FellipeHow do termite inquilines manage to cohabit termitaria along with the termite builder species? With this in mind, we analysed one of the several strategies that inquilines could use to circumvent conflicts with their hosts, namely, the use of distinct diets. We inspected overlapping patterns for the diets of several cohabiting Neotropical termite species, as inferred from carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures...
Diet segregation between cohabiting builder and inquiline termite species
Araújo, Ana Paula Albano; Florencio, Daniela Faria; Marins, Alessandra; Cassiano Sousa, Rosa; Cristaldo, Paulo Fellipe; Silva, Ivo Ribeiro; Souza, Og deHow do termite inquilines manage to cohabit termitaria along with the termite builder species? With this in mind, we analysed one of the several strategies that inquilines could use to circumvent conflicts with their hosts, namely, the use of distinct diets. We inspected overlapping patterns for the diets of several cohabiting Neotropical termite species, as inferred from carbon and nitrogen isotopic signatures...
Fatores que propiciam a coabitação de cupinzeiros por diferentes espécies de cu...
Marins, AlessandraFundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais; The nests built by eusocial insects are often exploited by opportunistic species. Many invader species are also eusocial, but rather than build their own nests, those species prefer to live inside structures built by other species. The nests built by termites (mounds), are often invaded by other termites species. The available records of these association...
Agressividade em Cornitermes cumulans (Kollar) (Insecta: Isoptera) submetidos a...
Marins, AlessandraFundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais; Social insects can recognize nestmates and avoid nests invasion. However, termite nests are frequently invaded by arthropods, mainly insects, including other termite species called inquilines. Mechanisms that allow nest invasion are not completely understood yet. In this work, we focus on intruders which are termite species, and how the colony builder can...