Rethinking crop-disease management in fungus-growing ants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 17611-17612

  Boomsmaa, Jacobus J ^a   Aanenb, Duur K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANT; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; COLONY FORMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNGUS GROWTH; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLAGUE; PLANT DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; FEMALE; MALE; PLANT DISEASES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SYMBIOSIS;

FORMICIDAE; FUNGI;

EID: 70449571974     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0910004106     Document Type: Note

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