trophophoresyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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trophophoresy (uncountable)

1. (biology, entomology) A form of trophobiosis in which one creature carries another creature to another location to farm it (harvest food from it, often after feeding it) there.
   • 2002 December 1, “Natural History of the Mealybug-Tending Ant, Acropyga epedana, with Descriptions of the Male and Queen Castes”, in Transactions of the American Entomological Society, volume 128, number 4, page 367:

     The mealybug-tending ant A. epedana is an obligate coccidiphile with trophophoretic queens. Trophophoresy is defined as the behavior of a foundress queen transporting a trophobiont on her mating flight for the establishment of a new mealybug "herd" in her new colony.

   • 2007, M. J. Wade, “The co-evolutionary genetics of ecological communities”, in (Please provide the book title または journal name), Nature Reviews Genetics:

     Acropyga spp. ants show obligate trophophoresy with mealybugs, in which newly mated queens carry a mealybug with them when founding new colonies.

   • 2007, P. H. W. Biedermann, Social behaviour in sib mating fungus farmers:

     All insect fungus gardeners propagate their primary fungi as clonal monocultures within their nests and mostly across generations too (trophophoresy from parent to offspring in the ants かつ the beetles).

関連する語

• trophophoretic