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Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

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Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

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Full title

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

Publisher

Oxford, UK: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Journal title

The New phytologist, 2009-06, Vol.182 (4), p.942-949

Language

English

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Publisher

Oxford, UK: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

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Contents

Symbioses between plants and fungi, fungi and ants, and ants and plants all play important roles in ecosystems. Symbioses involving all three partners appear to be rare. Here, we describe a novel tripartite symbiosis in which ants and a fungus inhabit domatia of an ant-plant, and present evidence that such interactions are widespread. We investigat...

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Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_860396498

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_860396498

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ISSN

0028-646X

E-ISSN

1469-8137

DOI

10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02793.x

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