Host Plant Use by Competing Acacia-Ants: Mutualists Monopolize While Parasites Share Hosts

• Stefanie Kautz ,

  * E-mail: skautz@fieldmuseum.org

  Affiliations Department of General Botany, Plant Ecology, University of Duisburg-Essen, FB BioGeo, Essen, Germany, Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  ⨯
• Daniel J. Ballhorn,

  Affiliations Department of General Botany, Plant Ecology, University of Duisburg-Essen, FB BioGeo, Essen, Germany, Department of Biology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

  ⨯
• Johannes Kroiss,

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, Research Group Insect Symbiosis, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

  ⨯
• Steffen U. Pauls,

  Affiliations Department of Entomology, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota, United States of America, Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

  ⨯
• Corrie S. Moreau,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  ⨯
• Sascha Eilmus,

  Affiliation Department of General Botany, Plant Ecology, University of Duisburg-Essen, FB BioGeo, Essen, Germany

  ⨯
• Erhard Strohm,

  Affiliation Department of Zoology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

  ⨯
• Martin Heil

  Affiliations Department of General Botany, Plant Ecology, University of Duisburg-Essen, FB BioGeo, Essen, Germany, Departamento de Ingeniería Genética, CINVESTAV, Irapuato, Guanajuato, Mexico

  ⨯