Texas-bound: Fungus keeps Texas leaf-cutter ants from spreading
Tuesday, February 22, 2011 - 11:50
in Biology & Nature
(PhysOrg.com) -- Texas winters may seem mild to those who move here from farther north, but they can be hard to adjust to for immigrants from warmer climates. This is true not only for people but for ants too. A new study by biologists at Rice University and the University of Texas at Austin (UT) finds that the Texas leaf-cutter ant Atta texana, whose ancestors emigrated from the tropics, adapted to the relatively harsh Texas winters in an unusual way -- through their food.
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