Eggs of the blind snake, Liotyphlops albirostris, are incubated in a nest of the lower fungus-growing ant, Apterostigma cf. goniodes

Psyche (London)

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Bruner, Gaspar ^a   Fernández Marín, Hermógenes ^a   Touchon, Justin C ^a   Wcislo, William T ^a  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOMALEPIDIDAE; APTEROSTIGMA; ATTINI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; GONIODES; LIOTYPHLOPS ALBIROSTRIS; REPTILIA; SERPENTES; TYPHLOPIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84858117125     PISSN: 00332615     EISSN: 16877438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/532314     Document Type: Article

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