Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome

Nitrogen acquisition is a major challenge for herbivorous animals, and the repeated origins of herbivory across the ants have raised expectations that nutritional symbionts have shaped their diversification. Direct evidence for N provisioning by internally housed symbionts is rare in animals; among...

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Autores principales: Hu, Yi, Sanders, Jon G., Łukasik, Piotr, D’Amelio, Catherine L., Millar, John S., Vann, David R., Lan, Yemin, Newton, Justin A., Schotanus, Mark, Kronauer, Daniel J. C., Pierce, Naomi E., Moreau, Corrie S., Wertz, John T., Engel, Philipp, Russell, Jacob A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29511180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03357-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29511180
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03357-y

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