SHEEP’S CLOTHING. “Our results show that chemical mimicry is used by flat morph aphids to deceive worker ants and infiltrate their brood chamber.” This involved evolving a bio synthetic process to make the ant coat protein, or a wolf in a sheep’s clothing strategy.
http://www.pnas.org/content/112/4/1101.full
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022