The effect of metapleural gland secretion on the growth of a mutualistic bacterium on the cuticle of leaf-cutting ants

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 406-409

  Poulsen, Michael ^a,b   Bot, Adrianne N M ^b,c   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BACTERIUM; CUTICLE; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; SECRETION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GROWTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTICLE; EXOCRINE GLAND; GROWTH CURVE; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PLANT DISEASE CONTROL; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; ANTS; PLANT LEAVES; SEBACEOUS GLANDS;

ACROMYRMEX; ACROMYRMEX OCTOSPINOSUS; ANIMALIA; ATTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HYMENOPTERA; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE;

EID: 0141924354     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0450-3     Document Type: Article

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