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Nitrogen fixation by diverse diazotrophic communities can support population growth of arboreal ants

BACKGROUND: Symbiotic ant-plant associations, in which ants live on plants, feed on plant-provided food, and protect host trees against threats, are ubiquitous across the tropics, with the Azteca-Cecropia associations being amongst the most widespread interactions in the Neotropics. Upon colonizatio...

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Autores principales: Nepel, Maximilian, Pfeifer, Josephine, Oberhauser, Felix B., Richter, Andreas, Woebken, Dagmar, Mayer, Veronika E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9185989/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35681192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12915-022-01289-0