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Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

Fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) engage in a mutualism with a fungus that serves as the ants' primary food source, but successful fungus cultivation is threatened by microfungal parasites (genus Escovopsis). Actinobacteria (genus Pseudonocardia) associate with most of the phylogenetic diversi...

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Autori principali: Cafaro, Matías J., Poulsen, Michael, Little, Ainslie E. F., Price, Shauna L., Gerardo, Nicole M., Wong, Bess, Stuart, Alison E., Larget, Bret, Abbot, Patrick, Currie, Cameron R.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: The Royal Society 2011
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3097832/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21106596
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.2118
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