High symbiont relatedness stabilizes mutualistic cooperation in fungusgrowing termites

Science

Volumn 326, Issue 5956, 2009, Pages 1103-1106

  Aanen, Duur K ^a   De Fine Licht, Henrik H ^b   Debets, Alfons J M ^a   Kerstes, Niels A G ^a   Hoekstra, Rolf F ^a   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGUS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; MUTUALISM; SPORULATION; SYMBIONT; TERMITE;

ARTICLE; FUNGUS; FUNGUS SPORE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOST; INOCULATION; ISOPTERA; MYCELIUM; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM COLONY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES HABITAT; SPORANGIUM; SPOROGENESIS; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; GENES, FUNGAL; GENETIC VARIATION; ISOPTERA; SPORES, FUNGAL; SYMBIOSIS; TERMITOMYCES;

ISOPTERA; MACROTERMITINAE; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 70450172174     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1173462     Document Type: Article

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