Before revision: A recent study by Chanam et al.Chanam, J., Sheshshayee, M.S., Kasinathan, S., Jagdeesh, A., Joshi, K.A., Borges, R.M., "Nutritional benefits from domatia inhabitants in an ant–plant interaction: interlopers do pay the rent" (Functional Ecology, 2014), showed that plants bearing domatia can be favoured even before the establishment of a specialised protection-based symbiosis, as nutritional benefits can provided by a motley set of domatia residents that could multiple species of ant (including protective, non-protective and even plant-damaging species such as Crematogaster dohrni) as well as other invertebrates, including as arboreal earthworms.
After revision: beincludeA recent study by Chanam et al.Chanam, J., Sheshshayee, M.S., Kasinathan, S., Jagdeesh, A., Joshi, K.A., Borges, R.M., "Nutritional benefits from domatia inhabitants in an ant–plant interaction: interlopers do pay the rent" (Functional Ecology, 2014), showed that plants bearing domatia can be favoured even before the establishment of a specialised protection-based symbiosis, as nutritional benefits can provided by a motley set of domatia residents that could multiple species of ant (including protective, non-protective and even plant-damaging species such as Crematogaster dohrni) as well as other invertebrates, including as arboreal earthworms.