Specific, non-nutritional association between an ascomycete fungus and Allomerus plant-ants

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 475-479

  Ruiz González, Mario X ^a,b,d   Malé, Pierre Jean G ^a,b   Leroy, Céline ^c   Dejean, Alain ^c   Gryta, Hervé ^a,b   Jargeat, Patricia ^a,b   Quilichini, Angélique ^c   Orivel, Jérôme ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^b École Nationale de Formation Agronomique   (France)

^c Campus Agronomique   (France)

^d Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ant fungus association; Chaetothyriales; Cordia nodosa; Hirtella physophora; Myrmecophyte; Population structure

Indexed keywords

ANT; FUNGUS; GROWTH RESPONSE; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANT; ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; CORDIA; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRYSOBALANACEAE; CORDIA; HAPLOTYPES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALLOMERUS; CHAETOTHYRIALES; CORDIA NODOSA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HIRTELLA PHYSOPHORA;

EID: 79951562511     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0920     Document Type: Article

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