Ant–Aphid Interactions: Are Ants Friends, Enemies, or Both?

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• Publication year

  2007

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  Unknown venue

• Publication date

  2007-11-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1603/0013-8746(2007)100[887:AIAAFE]2.0.CO;2
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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