Ant-plants and fungi: A new threeway symbiosis

New Phytologist

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 942-949

  Defossez, Emmanuel ^a   Selosse, Marc André ^a   Dubois, Marie Pierre ^a   Mondolot, Laurence ^b   Faccio, Antonella ^c   Djieto Lordon, Champlain ^d   McKey, Doyle ^a   Blatrix, Rumsaïs ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Ant plant fungus interaction; Coevolution; Mutualism; Myrmecophyte; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANT; CLADISTICS; COEVOLUTION; DNA; FUNGUS; LEGUME; MYRMECOPHYTE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SYMBIOSIS; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; CROSS BREEDING; FUNGUS; FUNGUS HYPHAE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CROSSES, GENETIC; FUNGI; HYPHAE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; SYMBIOSIS;

ASCOMYCOTA; CHAETOTHYRIALES; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LEONARDOXA; LEONARDOXA AFRICANA;

EID: 65549083893     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02793.x     Document Type: Article

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