Mycelial carton galleries of Azteca brevis (Formicidae) as a multi-species network

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1671, 2009, Pages 3265-3273

  Mayer, Veronika E ^a   Voglmayr, Hermann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Ant fungiculture; Azteca brevis; Chaetothyriales; Multi species network; Nest wall fungi; Tetrathylacium macrophyllum

Indexed keywords

ANT; BARK; DATA ACQUISITION; DICOTYLEDON; DNA; EPIPHYTE; FUNGUS; GROWTH RESPONSE; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; MUTUALISM; NEST STRUCTURE; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYLOGENETICS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; TRICHOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; AZTECA BREVIS; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLACOURTIACEAE; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS TRANSMISSION; MYCELIAL GROWTH; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS; TETRATHYLACIUM MACROPHYLLUM;

ATTINI; AZTECA BREVIS; CHAETOTHYRIALES; DOLICHODERINAE; FLACOURTIACEAE; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LASIUS; TETRATHYLACIUM MACROPHYLLUM;

EID: 70349414405     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0768     Document Type: Article

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