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Basic Foraging:
Burd M. 1996. Foraging performance by Atta colombica, a leaf-cutting ant. American Naturalist 148:597-612.
Howard JJ, Henneman ML, Cronin G, Fox JA, Hormiga G. 1996. Conditioning of scouts and recruits during foraging by a leaf-cutting ant, Atta colombica. Animal Behavior 52:299-306.
Lighton JRB, Bartholomew GA, Feener DH. 1987. Energetics of locomotion and load carriage and a model of the energy cost of foraging in the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica Guer. Physiological Zoology 60:524-537.
Shepherd JD. 1982. Trunk trails and the searching strategy of a leaf-cutter and, Atta colombica. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 11:77-84.
Shepherd JD. 1985. Adjusting foraging effort to resources in adjacent colonies of the leaf-cutter ant, Atta colombica. Biotropica 17:245-252.
Wirth R, Beyschlag W, Ryel RJ, Holldobler B. 1997. Annual foraging of the leaf-cutting ant Atta colombica in a semideciduous rain forest in Panama. Journal of Tropical Ecology 13:741-757.
Wirth R, Herz H, Ryel RJ, Beyschlag W, Holldobler B. 2003. Herbivory of leaf-cutting ants: a case study on Atta colombica in the tropical rainforest of Panama. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.
Fungal/bacterial interactions:
Cafaro MJ, et al. 2011. Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278:1814-1822.
Currie CR, et al. 2003. Ancient tripartite coevolution in the Attine ant-microbe symbiosis. Science 299:386-388.
Haeder S, Wirth R, Herz H, Spiteller D. 2009. Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 106: 4742-4746.
Martin MM, Weber NA. 1969. The cellulose utilizing capability of the fungus cultured by the Attine ant Atta colombica tonsipes. Annals of the Entomological Society of America. 62:1386-1387.
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