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Microbial community modulates growth of symbiotic fungus required for stingless bee metamorphosis

The Brazilian stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis requires the brood cells-associated fungus Zygosaccharomyces sp. as steroid source for metamorphosis. Besides the presence of Zygosaccharomyces sp., other fungi inhabit S. depilis brood cells, but their biological functions are unknown. Here we show...

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Autores principales: Paludo, Camila Raquel, Pishchany, Gleb, Andrade-Dominguez, Andres, Silva-Junior, Eduardo Afonso, Menezes, Cristiano, Nascimento, Fabio Santos, Currie, Cameron R., Kolter, Roberto, Clardy, Jon, Pupo, Mônica Tallarico
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6657851/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31344052
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219696