The nesting preference of an invasive ant is associated with the cues produced by actinobacteria in soil

• Hongmei Huang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Lu Ren,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Huijing Li,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Axel Schmidt,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

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• Jonathan Gershenzon,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1812-1551

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• Yongyue Lu ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: luyongyue@scau.edu.cn (YL); chengdaifeng@scau.edu.cn (DC)

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

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• Daifeng Cheng

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: luyongyue@scau.edu.cn (YL); chengdaifeng@scau.edu.cn (DC)

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou, China

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0918-5913

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