Nutritional niches reveal fundamental domestication trade-offs in fungus-farming ant

During crop domestication, human farmers traded greater productivity for higher crop vulnerability outside specialized cultivation conditions. We found a similar domestication trade-off across the major co-evolutionary transitions in the farming systems of attine ants. First, the fundamental nutriti...

• Main Author: Shik, Jonathan (author)
• Other Authors: Kooij, Pepijn (author), Donoso, David (author), Santos, Juan (author), Gómez, Ernesto (author), Franco, Mariana (author), Crumiere, Antonin (author), Arnan, Xavier (author), Howe, Jack (author), Wcislo, William (author), Boomsma, Jacobus (author)
• Format: article
• Language: eng
• Published: 2021
• Online Access: https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC7610523; http://repositorio.uti.edu.ec//handle/123456789/3298