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"They often discard the remaining seed, which is not killed, either in the nest or in the soil around the nest...and this dispersal is known as myrmecochory."

The suggest that myrmecochory may have driven a doubling of plant diversification.

Prof Majer is the co-author of two previous studies on how certain ant species disperse seeds, a process known as myrmecochory.