Patterns of functional enzyme activity in fungus farming ambrosia beetles

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2012, Pages

  De Fine Licht, Henrik H ^a   Biedermann, Peter H W ^b  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Digestion; Division of labor; Enzyme; Insect fungus farming; Insoluble chromogenic substrates; Social evolution; Symbiosis; Xyleborinus saxesenii; Xylomycetophagy

Indexed keywords

AMBROSIA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; PLATYPODINI; SCOLYTINAE; XYLEBORINUS;

EID: 84861838163     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-9-13     Document Type: Article

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