Sterilization and canopy modification of a swollen thorn acacia tree by a plant-ant

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• Publication year

  1999

• Venue

  Nature

• Publication date

  1999-10-07

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1038/44119
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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