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Caption: Figure 1: Myrmecia impaternata, queen, workers, larvae, and a pupal cocoon in a laboratory observation nest (RWT, CDB).
Caption: Figure 2: Comparison of karyotypes of Myrmecia banksi (a, a'), M.
In Nothomyrmecia (and Myrmecia pyriformis [17]) visual navigation across the ground between nest and host tree in dusk and dawn light is essentially crepuscular, and vision is probably less important than geotaxis for navigation on host trees during full darkness [15].
Exchange of food between workers, workers and queen, or adults and larvae by trophallaxis or as trophic eggs (as in Myrmecia [21, 22]) was not observed in Nothomyrmecia by Jaisson et al.
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In the present study, we found the genera Cephalotes (57%) and Solenopsis (50%) to have particularly high infection rates, Tetraponera (33.3%) and Polyrhachis (25.0%) with intermediate rates, Crematogaster (16.7%) and Pseudomyrmex (13.9%) with rather low rates, and no infections in the samples of Camponotus, Myrmecia, Myrmecocystus, Oecophylla, and Paraponera included here.
No infection was detected in Crematogaster, Myrmecia, Myrmecocystus, and Oecophylla (Table 1).
In contrast, Asaia-related symbionts were lacking in Camponotus, Crematogaster, Myrmecia, Myrmecocystus, Polyrhachis, Oecophylla, and Solenopsis.
