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The Evolutionary Innovation of Nutritional Symbioses in Leaf-Cutter Ants

Fungus-growing ants gain access to nutrients stored in plant biomass through their association with a mutualistic fungus they grow for food. This 50 million-year-old obligate mutualism likely facilitated some of these species becoming dominant Neotropical herbivores that can achieve immense colony s...

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Publicado no:Insects
Main Authors: Aylward, Frank O., Currie, Cameron R., Suen, Garret
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: MDPI 2012
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553616/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26467948
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects3010041
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