Graveyards on the move: The spatio-temporal distribution of dead ophiocordyceps-infected ants

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Pontoppidan, Maj Britt ^a   Himaman, Winanda ^b   Hywel Jones, Nigel L ^c   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Hughes, David P ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL PARKS   (Thailand)

^c NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY   (Thailand)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CANOPY; DEATH; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FUNGUS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMIDITY; MYCOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPHIOCORDYCEPS UNILATERALIS; PARASITE MIGRATION; PARASITISM; PHENOTYPE; RAIN FOREST; THAILAND; VEGETATION; ANIMAL; CORDYCEPS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PLANT LEAF; TROPIC CLIMATE;

CAMPONOTUS LEONARDI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

ANIMALS; ANTS; CORDYCEPS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; PLANT LEAVES; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 62849116706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0004835     Document Type: Article

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