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Fungal Farming in a Non-Social Beetle

Culturing of microbes for food production, called cultivation mutualism, has been well-documented from eusocial and subsocial insects such as ants, termites and ambrosia beetles, but poorly described from solitary, non-social insects. Here we report a fungal farming in a non-social lizard beetle Dou...

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Autores principales: Toki, Wataru, Tanahashi, Masahiko, Togashi, Katsumi, Fukatsu, Takema
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3407107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22848648
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0041893