Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis
Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis
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Oxford, UK: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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English
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Oxford, UK: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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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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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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0028-646X
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1469-8137
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10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02793.x
