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Monoculture of leafcutter ant gardens.

PloS one - 10 Sept 2010

Mueller Ulrich G, Scott Jarrod J, Ishak Heather D, Cooper Michael, Rodrigues Andre

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BACKGROUND: Leafcutter ants depend on the cultivation of symbiotic Attamyces fungi for food, which are thought to be grown by the ants in single-strain, clonal monoculture throughout the hundreds to thousands of gardens within a leafcutter nest. Monoculture eliminates cultivar-cultivar competitio...

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PMID: 20844760
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012668
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