Behind every great ant, there is a great gut

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2054-2057

  Poulsen, Michael ^a   Sapountzis, Panagiotis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

bacteria; coevolution; insects; symbiosis; trophic levels

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANT; BACTERIUM; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; METAGENOME; MICROBIOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BACTERIA; METAGENOME;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84860666365     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05510.x     Document Type: Review

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