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The fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis harbors bacillaene-producing Bacillus sp. that inhibit potentially antagonistic fungi

The ancient fungus-growing termite (Mactrotermitinae) symbiosis involves the obligate association between a lineage of higher termites and basidiomycete Termitomyces cultivar fungi. Our investigation of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis shows that Bacillus strains from M. natalensis...

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Autores principales: Um, Soohyun, Fraimout, Antoine, Sapountzis, Panagiotis, Oh, Dong-Chan, Poulsen, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3832938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24248063
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep03250