Differential role of symbiotic fungi in lignin degradation and food provision for fungus-growing termites (Macrotermitinae: Isoptera)

Functional Ecology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 186-193

  Hyodo, F ^a,d   Tayasu, I ^b   Inoue, T ^c   Azuma, J I ^a   Kudo, T ^c   Abe, T ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^d RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY AND NATURE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Carbon stable isotope ratio; Food provision; Fungus growing termite; Lignin degradation; Termitomyces

Indexed keywords

FOOD PROVISIONING; FUNGUS; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITE;

ANCISTROTERMES; ANCISTROTERMES PAKISTANICUS; FRAXINUS; FUNGI; HYPOTERMES; HYPOTERMES MAKHAMENSIS; INVERTEBRATA; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMES; MACROTERMES ANNANDALEI; MACROTERMITINAE; ODONTOTERMES; PSEUDACANTHOTERMES; PSEUDACANTHOTERMES MILITARIS; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 0038064132     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00718.x     Document Type: Article

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