Dating the fungus-growing termites' mutualism shows a mixture between ancient codiversification and recent symbiont dispersal across divergent hosts

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2619-2627

  Nobre, T ^a   Kone N A ^a,b   Konate S ^b   Linsenmair, K E ^c   Aanen, D K ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ NANGUI ABROGOUA   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

African rainforest; age estimate; co evolution; fungus growing termites; mutualism origin; Termitomyces

Indexed keywords

ACANTHOTERMES; ANCISTROTERMES; FUNGI; ISOPTERA; MACROTERMITINAE; MICROTERMES; SYNACANTHOTERMES; TERMITOMYCES;

EID: 79954601174     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05090.x     Document Type: Article

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