Article
High diversity and low specificity of chaetothyrialean fungi in carton galleries in a neotropical ant-plant association.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Nepel Maximilian, Voglmayr Hermann, Schönenberger Jürg, Mayer Veronika E
Abstract excerpt
New associations have recently been discovered between arboreal ants that live on myrmecophytic plants, and different groups of fungi. Most of the - usually undescribed - fungi cultured by the ants belong to the order Chaetothyriales (Ascomycetes). Chaetothyriales occur in the nesting spaces provided by the host plant, and form a major part of the cardboard-like material produced by the ants for constructing...
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