Symbiotic complexity: Discovery of a fifth symbiont in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis

Biology Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 501-504

  Little, Ainslie E F ^a   Currie, Cameron R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Host microbe interaction; Microbial ecology; Mutualism

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CLASSIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ASCOMYCOTA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 35548945776     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2007.0253     Document Type: Article

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