Ancient death-grip leaf scars reveal ant-fungal parasitism

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-70

  Hughes, David P ^a,b,c   Wappler, Torsten ^d   Labandeira, Conrad C ^e,f  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Ant fungal parasitism; Messel; Middle Eocene; Tritrophic interaction

Indexed keywords

ANT; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; EOCENE; FOSSIL RECORD; FUNGUS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PARASITISM; SPORE;

GERMANY; HESSE; MESSEL;

FUNGI; HEXAPODA;

EID: 79551478020     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0521     Document Type: Article

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