a plant cavity inhabited by commensal insects or mites or, occasionally, microorganisms
Examples of 'domatia' in a sentence
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Most plant-ants tend patches of chaetothyrialean fungi within domatia.
Rumsaïs Blatrix, Sarah Debaud, Alex Salas-Lopez, Céline Born, Laure Benoit, DoyleB. McKey, Christiane Attéké, Champlain Djiéto-Lordon 2013, 'Repeated Evolution of Fungal Cultivar Specificity in Independently Evolved Ant-Plant-FungusSymbioses', PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0068101. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Macroscopic evaluation showed the absence or presence of characters such as hairiness, domatia and scents.
Guilherme Bordignon Ceolin, Jumaida Maria Rosito, Thais Scotti do Canto-Dorow 2009, 'Leaf surface characters applied to Lauraceae taxonomy in a Seasonal Forest of SouthernBrazil', Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technologyhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132009000600017. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Besides their ecological importance, few studies have described the structure of domatia.
Alline Flores de Brito, Maria Regina Boeger, Letícia Larcher de Carvalho, Renato Goldenberg 2012, 'Leaf domatia morphology of Miconia sellowiana Naudin (Melastomataceae)', Biotemashttp://www.biotemas.ufsc.br/volumes/pdf/volume251/1a9.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
We assessed the trichomes from the limb, ribs and domatia.
Cláudia Helena C Matos, Angelo Pallini, Cleide Maria F Pinto, Madelaine Venzon, DanielaDM Rezende, Rita Cristina P de Freitas 2011, 'Caracterização morfológica e classificação da superfície foliar de pimentas quantoà presença de tricomas e domácias Morphological characterization and surface classificationof chili pepper leaves considering trichomes and domatia', Horticultura Brasileirahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362011000200008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Four types of domatia were observed: hairtufts, pocket, pit and revolute margin.
Taciana Keila dos Anjos Ramalho, Cláudia Helena Cysneiros Matos, André Laurênio deMelo, Carlos Romero Ferreira de Oliveira, Tatiane Gomes Calaça Menezes, Juliana Kellyde Lima Silva 2014, 'Leaf domatia in montane forest and Caatinga in the semiarid of Pernambuco State:Morphology and ecological implications', Acta Scientiarum : Biological Scienceshttp://186.233.154.254/ojs/index.php/ActaSciBiolSci/article/view/20275. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Domatia thickness, area and dry weight, and leaf thickness were analyzed.
Alline Flores de Brito, Maria Regina Boeger, Letícia Larcher de Carvalho, Renato Goldenberg 2012, 'Leaf domatia morphology of Miconia sellowiana Naudin (Melastomataceae)', Biotemashttp://www.biotemas.ufsc.br/volumes/pdf/volume251/1a9.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
A significant difference was observed on the total density of trichomes/cm² and on the number oftrichomes/domatia.
Cláudia Helena C Matos, Angelo Pallini, Cleide Maria F Pinto, Madelaine Venzon, DanielaDM Rezende, Rita Cristina P de Freitas 2011, 'Caracterização morfológica e classificação da superfície foliar de pimentas quantoà presença de tricomas e domácias Morphological characterization and surface classificationof chili pepper leaves considering trichomes and domatia', Horticultura Brasileirahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-05362011000200008. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In this review we discussed the pivotal role of the domatia in plant defenses against small arthropods.
Cláudia Helena Cysneiros Matos, Angelo Pallini, Luiz Luciano Bellini, Rita CristinaPereira de Freitas 2006, 'Domácias e seu papel na defesa das plantas Domatia mediating plant defense', Ciência Ruralhttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782006000300050. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
In exchange for shelter (domatia) and food, mutualistic plant-ants protect their host myrmecophytes from herbivores, encroaching vines and fungal pathogens.
Olivier Roux, Régis Céréghino, Pascal J. Solano, Alain Dejean 2011, 'Caterpillars and Fungal Pathogens: Two Co-Occurring Parasites of an Ant-Plant Mutualism',PLoS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0020538. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Domatia are small cavities that shelter and provide an adequate physical microenvironment for arthropods, and are often found on leaves.
Alline Flores de Brito, Maria Regina Boeger, Letícia Larcher de Carvalho, Renato Goldenberg 2012, 'Leaf domatia morphology of Miconia sellowiana Naudin (Melastomataceae)', Biotemashttp://www.biotemas.ufsc.br/volumes/pdf/volume251/1a9.pdf. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)