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Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants

The evolution of ant agriculture, as practised by the fungus-farming ‘attine’ ants, is thought to have arisen in the wet rainforests of South America about 55–65 Ma. Most subsequent attine agricultural evolution, including the domestication event that produced the ancestor of higher attine cultivars...

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Autores principales: Branstetter, Michael G., Ješovnik, Ana, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Lloyd, Michael W., Faircloth, Brant C., Brady, Seán G., Schultz, Ted R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5394666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28404776
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2017.0095

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