Low variation in ribosomal DNA and internal transcribed spacers of the symbiotic fungi of leaf-cutting ants (Attini: Formicidae)

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1463-1472

  Silva Pinhati, A C O ^a   Bacci, M ^a   Hinkle, G ^b   Sogin, M L ^b   Pagnocca, F C ^a   Martins, V G ^a   Bueno, O C ^a   Hebling, M J A ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acromyrmex; Atta; Internal transcribed spacer; Leaf cutting ants; Leucoagaricus; Leucoagaricus gongylophorus

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 2; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 18S; RNA 28S; RNA 5.8S;

ALLOPATRY; ANT; ARTICLE; BASIDIOMYCETES; BRAZIL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUMYCOTA; FUNGUS ISOLATION; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LEUCOAGARICUS; LEUCOAGARICUS GONGYLOPHORUS; LEUCOCOPRINEAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORGANISM COLONY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES CULTIVATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; SYMPATRY;

ACROMYRMEX; ATTA; ATTINI; BASIDIOMYCOTA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LEUCOAGARICUS; LEUCOAGARICUS GONGYLOPHORUS;

EID: 5644221542     PISSN: 0100879X     EISSN: 1414431X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0100-879X2004001000004     Document Type: Article

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