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Slowing them down will make them lose: a role for attine ant crop fungus in defending pupae against infections?

1. Fungus‐growing ants (Attini) have evolved an obligate dependency upon a basidiomycete fungus that they cultivate as their food. Less well known is that the crop fungus is also used by many attine species to cover their eggs, larvae and pupae. 2. The adaptive functional significance of this brood...

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Pubblicato in:J Anim Ecol
Autori principali: Armitage, Sophie A. O., Fernández‐Marín, Hermógenes, Boomsma, Jacobus J., Wcislo, William T.
Natura: Artigo
Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084299/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27136600
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12543
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