Ants farm subterranean aphids mostly in single clone groups - an example of prudent husbandry for carbohydrates and proteins?

BACKGROUND: Mutualistic interactions are wide-spread but the mechanisms underlying their evolutionary stability and ecological dynamics remain poorly understood. Cultivation mutualisms in which hosts consume symbionts occur in phylogenetically diverse groups, but often have symbiont monocultures for...

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Autores principales: Ivens, Aniek BF, Kronauer, Daniel JC, Pen, Ido, Weissing, Franz J, Boomsma, Jacobus J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22747564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-106

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499235/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22747564
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-12-106

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