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Rediscovery of the enigmatic fungus-farming ant "Mycetosoritis" asper Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): Implications for taxonomy, phylogeny, and the evolution of agriculture in ants

We report the rediscovery of the exceedingly rarely collected and enigmatic fungus-farming ant species Mycetosoritis asper. Since the description of the type specimen in 1887, only four additional specimens are known to have been added to the world's insect collections. Its biology is entirely...

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Autores principales: Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Ješovnik, Ana, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Bacci, Mauricio, Schultz, Ted R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28489860
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176498