Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5435-5440

  Schultz, Ted R ^a,b   Brady, Seán G ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Attini; Divergence dating; Formicidae; Phylogeny; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CALIBRATION; CLIMATE; CULTIVAR; ECOLOGY; EOCENE; FOSSIL; FUNGUS; GENE; HERBIVORE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NEOTROPICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES; TAXONOMY; TROPICS;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FUNGI; GENES, INSECT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS; TIME;

ANIMALIA; ATTINI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 44449117871     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0711024105     Document Type: Article

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