The population structure of antibiotic-producing bacterial symbionts of apterostigma dentigerum ants: Impacts of coevolution and multipartite symbiosis

American Naturalist

Volumn 180, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 604-617

  Caldera, Eric J ^a   Currie, Cameron R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Apterostigma; Escovopsis; Isolation by distance; Population structure; Pseudonocardia; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANT; ANTIBIOTICS; BACTERIUM; COEVOLUTION; CULTIVAR; DISPERSAL; FUNGUS; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; ISOLATED POPULATION; PHYLOGENETICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RECOMBINATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SYMBIOSIS;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ANTS; CENTRAL AMERICA; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; PHYLOGENY; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SYMBIOSIS;

PANAMA [CENTRAL AMERICA]; PANAMA CANAL ZONE;

EID: 84867737399     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/667886     Document Type: Article

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