Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

Environmental Microbiology Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 534-540

  Poulsen, Michael ^a   Cafaro, Matías J ^a,b   Erhardt, Daniel P ^a   Little, Ainslie E F ^a   Gerardo, Nicole M ^c   Tebbets, Brad ^a   Klein, Bruce S ^a   Currie, Cameron R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMYRMEX; ACTINOBACTERIA; ATTA; ESCOVOPSIS; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; PSEUDONOCARDIA;

EID: 78649722185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1758-2229.2009.00098.x     Document Type: Article

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