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Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Sept 2004

Gerardo Nicole M, Mueller Ulrich G, Price Shauna L, Currie Cameron R

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Fungus-growing ants, their cultivated fungi and the cultivar-attacking parasite Escovopsis coevolve as a complex community. Higher-level phylogenetic congruence of the symbionts suggests specialized long-term associations of host-parasite clades but reveals little about parasite specificity at fi...

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PMID: 15315894
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2792
PMCID: PMC1691791

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