Maximum allogrooming effects on biomasses of leaf-cutting ants and symbiotic fungus with inflection points. Biomass growth curves with identified inflection points (solid blue circles) for chamber A and (solid red circles) for chamber B across three treatments: T1 (control), T2 (Metarhizium anisopliae), and T3 (Escovopsis phialicopiosa). D represents the one-way transfer of biomass from chamber A to chamber B (D = 0.1). The model uses maximum allogrooming durations measured in seconds: T1 (1701 s), T2 (169 s), and T3 (1639 s).

 
 
  Part of: Bueno I, Toledo JVMFde, Canuto LS, Godoy WAC (2025) The role of grooming in regulating biomass growth of ants and symbiotic fungi under entomopathogenic fungal infection: experiments and mathematical modelling. BioRisk 23: 17-43. https://doi.org/10.3897/biorisk.23.151538