Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Mehdiabadi, Natasha J ^a,b   Mueller, Ulrich G ^c,d   Brady, Seán G ^a   Himler, Anna G ^c,e   Schultz, Ted R ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANT; ARTICLE; CULTIVAR; CYPHOMYRMEX WHEELERI; DNA SEQUENCE; FUNGUS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SYMBIONT FIDELITY; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FUNGI; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84864317920     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1844     Document Type: Article

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