Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Gerardo, Nicole M ^a,b,c   Mueller, Ulrich G ^a,b   Currie, Cameron R ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; APTEROSTIGMA; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLADISTICS; COEVOLUTION; ESCOVOPSIS; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIOSIS; AGARICALES; ANIMAL; ARGENTINA; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COSTA RICA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HYPOCREALES; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PANAMA; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

APTEROSTIGMA; ESCOVOPSIS; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

ELONGATION FACTOR 1; FUNGAL PROTEIN;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; ANTS; ARGENTINA; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; COSTA RICA; FUNGAL PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HYPOCREALES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PANAMA; PEPTIDE ELONGATION FACTOR 1; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33750906038     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-88     Document Type: Article

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