Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1710, 2011, Pages 1419-1426

  Defossez, Emmanuel ^a,c   Djiéto Lordon, Champlain ^b   Mckey, Doyle ^a   Selosse, Marc André ^a   Blatrix, Rumsaïs ^a  

^a CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^c Cemagref   (France)

Author keywords

Leonardoxa; Mutualism; Myrmecophyte; Nutrient transfer; Stable isotopes; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; CARBON ISOTOPE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FUNGUS; HOST PLANT; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LEGUME; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MUTUALISM; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; RECYCLING; SYMBIOSIS;

FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LEONARDOXA; LEONARDOXA AFRICANA; PETALOMYRMEX PHYLAX;

EID: 79953325383     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.1884     Document Type: Article

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