Fungal farming in a non-social beetle

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Toki, Wataru ^a   Tanahashi, Masahiko ^b   Togashi, Katsumi ^a   Fukatsu, Takema ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHROPOD LARVA; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; COLEOPTERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DOUBLEDAYA BUCCULENTA; EGG LAYING; EXOSKELETON; FEMALE; FUNGAL DEVELOPMENT; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; FUNGUS ISOLATION; HISTOLOGY; INOCULATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SYMBIOSIS; WICKERHAMOMYCES ANOMALUS; YEAST CELL;

ANIMALS; BEETLES; FEMALE; FUNGI; LARVA; MALE; OVIPOSITION; PLANT STEMS; POACEAE; SYMBIOSIS;

COLEOPTERA; EROTYLIDAE; FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; ISOPTERA; LANGURIIDAE; PICHIA ANOMALA; PLATYPODINI; SACCHAROMYCETES;

EID: 84864592910     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0041893     Document Type: Article

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