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| Provedor de dados: |
Zoologia
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| País: |
Brazil
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| Título: |
Stingless bees (Hymenoptera, Meliponini) feeding on stinkhorn spores (Fungi, Phallales): robbery or dispersal?
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| Autores: |
Oliveira,Marcio L.
Morato,Elder F.
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| Data: |
2000-09-01
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| Ano: |
2000
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| Palavras-chave: |
Stingless bee-fungi interaction
Dictyophora
Phallus
Phallales
Robbery
Spore dispersal
Trigona
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| Resumo: |
Records about stingless bee-fungi interaction are very rare. In Brazilian Amazonia, workers of Trigona crassipes (Fabricius, 1793) and Trigona fulviventris Guérin, 1835 visiting two stinkhorn species, Dictyophora sp. and Phallus sp., respectively, were observed. The workers licked the fungi gleba, a mucilaginous mass of spores covering the pileum. Neither gleba residue nor spores were found on the body surface of these bee workers. These observations indicate that these bee species include spores as a complement in their diet. On the other hand, they also suggest that these stingless bees can, at times, facilitale spore dispersal, in case intact spores are eliminated with the feces.
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| Tipo: |
Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-81752000000300025
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| Editor: |
Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia
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| Relação: |
10.1590/S0101-81752000000300025
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| Formato: |
text/html
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| Fonte: |
Revista Brasileira de Zoologia v.17 n.3 2000
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| Direitos: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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