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Disease defence through generations: leaf-cutter ants and their symbiotic bacteria.
Molecular ecology - 1 Aug 2013
Woodhams Douglas C, Brucker Robert M
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Microbial ecology of animals is taking on significance in the modern dialogue for the biology of species. Similar to a nuclear genome, the entire bacterial assemblage maintains an ancestral signal of the host's evolution leading to cophylogeny between the host and the microbes they harbour (Brucker & Bordenstein 2012b). The stability of such associations is of great interest as they provide a means for species to...
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