Science. 1983 Apr 29;220(4596):532-3. doi: 10.1126/science.220.4596.532.
Female treehoppers (Publilia reticulata Van Duzee) modify their parental care behavior in the presence of ants. Females with untended young remain with their original brood, but females from ant-tended colonies readily desert their first brood and produce additional clutches. Care by female treehoppers, in the absence of ants, increases the probability that a colony will produce some survivors, but ant attendance greatly increases the number of surviving nymphs.
有蚂蚁存在的情况下，雌性沫蝉（Publilia reticulata Van Duzee）会改变其亲代抚育行为。没有蚂蚁照顾的年轻雌性沫蝉会留在其原始的巢中，但来自有蚂蚁照顾的沫蝉殖民地的雌性沫蝉会轻易地放弃其第一批幼体并产下额外的卵囊。在没有蚂蚁的情况下，雌性沫蝉的照顾会增加一个殖民地产生一些幸存者的概率，但蚂蚁的照料会大大增加幸存若虫的数量。
