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Diversity of Termitomyces Associated with Fungus-Farming Termites Assessed by Cultural and Culture-Independent Methods

BACKGROUND: Fungus-cultivating termites make use of an obligate mutualism with fungi from the genus Termitomyces, which are acquired through either vertical transmission via reproductive alates or horizontally transmitted during the formation of new mounds. Termitomyces taxonomy, and thus estimating...

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Autores principales: Makonde, Huxley M., Boga, Hamadi I., Osiemo, Zipporah, Mwirichia, Romano, Stielow, J. Benjamin, Göker, Markus, Klenk, Hans-Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3577893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23437139
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0056464