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Symbiotic Plant Biomass Decomposition in Fungus-Growing Termites

Termites are among the most successful animal groups, accomplishing nutrient acquisition through long-term associations and enzyme provisioning from microbial symbionts. Fungus farming has evolved only once in a single termite sub-family: Macrotermitinae. This sub-family has become a dominant decomp...

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Autores principales: da Costa, Rafael R., Hu, Haofu, Li, Hongjie, Poulsen, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6523192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30925664
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/insects10040087