Coevolution of Mutualism Between Ants and Acacias in Central America¶
Janzen, D. H. (1966). Coevolution of Mutualism Between Ants and Acacias in Central America. Evolution, 20(3), 249-275.
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Primes¶
- Relationship Specific Investment
- In co-evolutionary biology, obligate mutualisms — fig and wasp, yucca and yucca moth — encode adaptations whose value depends on one specific partner species,
This sourceClassic study of obligate ant-acacia mutualism, the biological analogue of partner-specific coevolved investment.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
Abstract documents one obligate ant-acacia mutualism with mutual dependency of a single species pair; it does not mention fig/wasp, yucca moth, pipelines or treaties.
“In this species pair, the ant is dependent upon the acacia for food and domicile, and the acacia is dependent upon the ant for protection from phytophagous insects and neighboring plants.”
- In co-evolutionary biology, obligate mutualisms — fig and wasp, yucca and yucca moth — encode adaptations whose value depends on one specific partner species,
- Symbiosis
- Symbiosis clarifies by forcing a precise language for sustained mutual shaping, of the kind Janzen (1966) deployed in his classic analysis of ant–acacia coevolution to distinguish casual occupancy from obligate partnership.
This sourceClassic field study establishing that ant–acacia symbiosis requires sustained, specific exchange (housing, food bodies, defense) rather than casual co-occurrence; methodological exemplar for precise structural description of a partnership.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The abstract supports obligate ant-acacia mutualism (food, domicile, defense) but does not itself draw the claimed contrast between casual occupancy and obligate partnership.
“In this species pair, the ant is dependent upon the acacia for food and domicile, and the acacia is dependent upon the ant for protection from phytophagous insects and neighboring plants.”
- Symbiosis clarifies by forcing a precise language for sustained mutual shaping, of the kind Janzen (1966) deployed in his classic analysis of ant–acacia coevolution to distinguish casual occupancy from obligate partnership.
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