Each whitish seed has a small, fleshy tail ( the elaiosome ) containing substances attractive to ants which distribute the seeds.
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For example, myrmecochores can influence seed fate by producing rounder, smoother diaspores that inhibit ants from re-dispersing seeds after elaiosome removal.
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Ants harvest the seed, attracted by the fleshy, oil rich elaiosome ( or seed stalk ), which they bury and store in widely dispersed locations.
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This activity is probably encouraged by the presence of a tiny white food body ( elaiosome ) on the tip of the seed that may be attractive to the ants.
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Insect dispersal is aided by the presence of a conspicuous elaiosome, an oil-rich body attached to the seed, which is high in both lipids and oleic acid.
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The seed of the plant has an elaiosome, which is attractive to disperse the seeds of the plant when they take them back to their nests to feed their young.
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When the egg has been carried to the colony, the ant feeds the elaiosome to a larva and the phasmid egg develops in the recesses of the nest in a protected environment.
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Both " Lamprocampnos " and " Corydalis " are members of the Papaveraceae family, with seeds having an attached elaiosome that makes them attractive to ants, which disperse the seeds.
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Small percentages of Elaiosome-bearing seeds are collected at a higher rate in contrast to nonelaiosome-bearing seeds and do not store them in their nests, but rather in surface trash piles in the mound vicinity.
