About the Authors

Alain Dejean

alain.dejean@wanadoo.fr

Affiliations CNRS, Écologie des Forêts de Guyane (UMR-CNRS 8172), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, France, Université de Toulouse, UPS (Ecolab), Toulouse, France

Jacques H. C. Delabie

Affiliation U.P.A. Laboratório de Mirmecologia, Convênio UESC/CEPLAC, Itabuna, Bahia, Brazil

Bruno Corbara

Affiliations CNRS, Laboratoire Microorganismes, Génome et Environnement (UMR-CNRS 6023), Université Blaise Pascal, Aubière, France, Clermont Université, Université Blaise Pascal (LMGE), Clermont-Ferrand, France

Fréderic Azémar

Affiliations Université de Toulouse, UPS (Ecolab), Toulouse, France, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement (UMR-CNRS 5245), Toulouse, France

Sarah Groc

Affiliation Instituto de Biologia Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Uberlândia, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Jérôme Orivel

Affiliation CNRS, Écologie des Forêts de Guyane (UMR-CNRS 8172), Campus Agronomique, Kourou, France

Maurice Leponce

Affiliation Biological Evaluation Section, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Brussels, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AD BC ML. Performed the experiments: AD BC SG. Analyzed the data: AD ML. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BC FA JHCD JO ML SG. Wrote the paper: AD. Identified the ants: JHCD.