Open relationships in the castles of clay: High diversity and low host specificity of Termitomyces fungi associated with fungus-growing termites in Africa

Insectes Sociaux

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 351-363

  Osiemo, Z B ^a,b   Marten, A ^a   Kaib, M ^c   Gitonga, L M ^b   Boga, H I ^b   Brandl, R ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JOMO KENYATTA UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Co evolution; Fungal diversity; Host specificity; Macrotermitinae; Mutualistic symbiosis

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; COEVOLUTION; DATA SET; DEAD WOOD; DECOMPOSITION; DIVERGENCE; FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; MUTUALISM; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SYMBIONT; TAXONOMY; TERMITE; TROPICAL REGION; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

AFRICA;

FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMITINAE; ODONTOTERMES; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 77953871356     PISSN: 00201812     EISSN: 14209098     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00040-010-0092-3     Document Type: Article

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