Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens

BACKGROUND: Leafcutter ants depend on the cultivation of symbiotic Attamyces fungi for food, which are thought to be grown by the ants in single-strain, clonal monoculture throughout the hundreds to thousands of gardens within a leafcutter nest. Monoculture eliminates cultivar-cultivar competition t...

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Autores principales: Mueller, Ulrich G., Scott, Jarrod J., Ishak, Heather D., Cooper, Michael, Rodrigues, Andre
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012668

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2937030/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20844760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012668

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