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Plants initially accepted by foraging leaf-cutting ants are later avoided if they prove unsuitable for their symbiotic fungus. Plant avoidance is mediated by the waste produced in the fungus garden soon after the incorporation of the unsuitable leaves, as foragers can learn plant odors and cues from the damaged fungus that are both present in the recently produced waste particles. We asked whether avoidance learning of plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus can take place entirely at the colony dump. In order to investigate whether cues available in the waste chamber induce plant avoidance in naïve subcolonies, we exchanged the waste produced by subcolonies fed either fungicide-Treated privet leaves or untreated leaves and measured the acceptance of untreated privet leaves before and after the exchange of waste. Second, we evaluated whether foragers could perceive the avoidance cues directly at the dump by quantifying the visits of labeled foragers to the waste chamber. Finally, we asked whether foragers learn to specifically avoid untreated leaves of a plant after a confinement over 3 hours in the dump of subcolonies that were previously fed fungicide-Treated leaves of that species. After the exchange of the waste chambers, workers from subcolonies that had access to waste from fungicide-Treated privet leaves learned to avoid that plant. One-Third of the labeled foragers visited the dump. Furthermore, naïve foragers learned to avoid a specific, previously unsuitable plant if exposed solely to cues of the dump during confinement. We suggest that cues at the dump enable foragers to predict the unsuitable effects of plants even if they had never been experienced in the fungus garden. © 2017 Arenas, Roces. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Avoidance of plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus in leaf-cutting ants: Learning can take place entirely at the colony dump
Autor:Arenas, A.; Roces, F.
Filiación:Department of Behavioural Physiology and Sociobiology, Biozentrum, University of WuÈrzburg, WuÈrzburg, Germany
Laboratorio de Insectos Sociales, IFIBYNE-CONICET, Departamento de Biodiversidad y, PabelloÂn II Ciudad Universitaria, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:fungicide; antifungal agent; waste; Acromyrmex ambiguus; ant; Article; avoidance behavior; blackberry; controlled study; forager; foraging behavior; fungus; Ligustrum; nonhuman; organism colony; plant insect interaction; plant leaf; Pyracantha; worker (insect); animal; ant; drug effects; feeding behavior; metabolism; microbiology; parasitology; physiology; plant; symbiosis; waste; Animals; Antifungal Agents; Ants; Avoidance Learning; Feeding Behavior; Fungi; Plant Leaves; Plants; Symbiosis; Waste Products
Año:2017
Volumen:12
Número:3
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171388
Título revista:PLoS ONE
Título revista abreviado:PLoS ONE
ISSN:19326203
CODEN:POLNC
CAS:Antifungal Agents; Waste Products
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_19326203_v12_n3_p_Arenas

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Arenas, A. & Roces, F. (2017) . Avoidance of plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus in leaf-cutting ants: Learning can take place entirely at the colony dump. PLoS ONE, 12(3).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171388
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Arenas, A., Roces, F. "Avoidance of plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus in leaf-cutting ants: Learning can take place entirely at the colony dump" . PLoS ONE 12, no. 3 (2017).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171388
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Arenas, A., Roces, F. "Avoidance of plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus in leaf-cutting ants: Learning can take place entirely at the colony dump" . PLoS ONE, vol. 12, no. 3, 2017.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171388
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Arenas, A., Roces, F. Avoidance of plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus in leaf-cutting ants: Learning can take place entirely at the colony dump. PLoS ONE. 2017;12(3).
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0171388