Animal interactions play an important role in understanding ecological processes. The
nature and intensity of these interactions can shape the impacts of organisms on their …

The latest review of social parasitism in ants was published in 1990. Since then,
comparatively few new parasitic species have been discovered, but research has …

A hallmark of animals that are eusocial, or those with advanced sociality, is reproductive
specialization into worker and queen castes [1–3]. In the most derived societies, these …

We describe here a co-occurrence (ie a syninclusion) of ants and termites in a piece of
Mexican amber (Totolapa deposit, Chiapas), whose importance is two-fold. First, this finding …

1. Termitophily in some rove beetles is commonly attributed to the striking termite worker
resemblance that is provided by the beetles' hypertrophic ('physogastric') abdomen …

Ants are omnipresent in tropical forests, especially territorially dominant arboreal ants whose
territories are spatially segregated forming 'ant mosaics'. These ecologically important …

Subterranean termites provide a major potential food source for forest-dwelling ants, yet the
interactions between ants and termites are seldom investigated largely due to the cryptic …

Vegetation structure and microhabitat availability and diversity affect ant assemblage
diversity, growth, and dispersal. In this study, we described assemblages of ants nesting in …

Symbiosis, the living‐together of unlike organisms, underlies every major transition in
evolution and pervades most ecological dynamics. Among examples of symbioses, the …

1. Termites are important ecosystem engineers that improve primary productivity in trees and
animal diversity outside their mounds. However, their ecological relationship with the …