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The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus‐cultivar provisioning in free‐ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant

Foraging trails of leafcutter colonies are iconic scenes in the Neotropics, with ants collecting freshly cut plant fragments to provision a fungal food crop. We hypothesised that the fungus‐cultivar's requirements for macronutrients and minerals govern the foraging niche breadth of Atta colombi...

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Autores principales: Crumière, Antonin J. J., James, Aidan, Lannes, Pol, Mallett, Sophie, Michelsen, Anders, Rinnan, Riikka, Shik, Jonathan Z.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9292433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34418263
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ele.13865