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Fungiculture or Termite Husbandry? The Ruminant Hypothesi
We present a new perspective for the role of Termitomyces fungi in the mutualism with fungus-growing termites. According to the predominant view, this mutualism is as an example of agriculture with termites as farmers of a domesticated fungus crop, which is used for degradation of plant-material and...
Autores principales: | Nobre, Tânia, Aanen, Duur K. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26467962 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects3010307 |
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