On ants, plants and fungi: Commentary

New Phytologist

Volumn 182, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 785-788

  Poulsen, Michael ^a   Currie, Cameron R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant plant interactions; Domatia; Fungi; Mutualisms; Myrmecophytes; Symbiosis; Tripartite

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; FUNGUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NOTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; FUNGI; PLANTS; SYMBIOSIS;

FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

EID: 65549090065     PISSN: 0028646X     EISSN: 14698137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02863.x     Document Type: Note

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