Competition-based screening helps to secure the evolutionary stability of a defensive microbiome

BACKGROUND: The cuticular microbiomes of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants pose a conundrum in microbiome biology because they are freely colonisable, and yet the prevalence of the vertically transmitted bacteria Pseudonocardia, which contributes to the control of Escovopsis fungus garden disease, is nev...

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Autores principales: Worsley, Sarah F., Innocent, Tabitha M., Holmes, Neil A., Al-Bassam, Mahmoud M., Schiøtt, Morten, Wilkinson, Barrie, Murrell, J. Colin, Boomsma, Jacobus J., Yu, Douglas W., Hutchings, Matthew I.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8444595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34526023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01142-w

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8444595/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34526023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-021-01142-w

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