Presumptive horizontal symbiont transmission in the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03008.x

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Presumptive horizontal symbiont transmission in the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis.

Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2006

de Fine Licht H H, Boomsma J J, Aanen D K

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All colonies of the fungus-growing termite Macrotermes natalensis studied so far are associated with a single genetically variable lineage of Termitomyces symbionts. Such limited genetic variation of symbionts and the absence of sexual fruiting bodies (mushrooms) on M. natalensis mounds would be compatible with clonal vertical transmission, as is known to occur in Macrotermes bellicosus. We investigated this...

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Animals
Base Sequence
Basidiomycota
DNA, Fungal
DNA, Ribosomal Spacer
Female
Genetics, Population
Isoptera
Male
Molecular Sequence Data
Peptide Elongation Factor 1
Phylogeny
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
RNA Polymerase II
Sequence Analysis, DNA
South Africa
Symbiosis

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PMID: 16968259
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2006.03008.x

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