Locating, collecting, and maintaining colonies of fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae: Attini)
Locating, collecting, and maintaining colonies of fungus-farming ants (Hymenoptera: Myrmicinae: Attini)
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定位、收集和维护真菌养殖蚂蚁群（膜翅目：Myrmicinae：Attini）
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2015
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T. Schultz
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J. Sosa‐Calvo;A. Ješovnik;E. Okonski;T. Schultz
本文的目的是描述几代蚂蚁学家开发的方法，用于在实验室中定位、收集和维持真菌养殖蚂蚁的活菌落。我们的目标是加速对这一迷人而重要的生物群体中许多鲜为人知且日益受到威胁的物种的研究。我们主要关注非切叶真菌农业蚂蚁的收集，并在三个部分描述了标准化的测量和数据收集协议：（i）在田间定位真菌农业蚂蚁;（ii）收集真菌农业蚂蚁的整个殖民地;（iii）收集非切叶真菌农业蚂蚁。以及（iii）在实验室中维持真菌养殖蚂蚁的活菌落。我们提供必要的设备和材料清单，包括在哪里可以获得它们的信息。
The purpose of this paper is to describe methods developed by generations of attinologists for locating, collecting, and maintaining in the laboratory live colonies of fungus-farming ants. Our goal is to accelerate the study of the many very poorly known and increasingly threatened species of this fascinating and biologically important group. We primarily focus on the collection of non-leaf-cutting fungus-farming ants and describe standardized measurement and data collection protocols in three sections: (i) locating fungus-farming ants in the field; (ii) collecting whole colonies of fungus-farming ants; and (iii) maintaining living colonies of fungus-farming ants in the laboratory. We provide lists of necessary equipment and materials, including information on where they can be acquired.