Fungal farming in a non-social beetle.
Culturing of microbes for food production, called cultivation mutualism, has been well-documented from eusocial and subsocial insects such as ants, termites and ambrosia beetles, but poorly described from solitary, non-social insects. Here we report a fungal farming in a non-social lizard beetle Dou...
Main Authors: | Wataru Toki, Masahiko Tanahashi, Katsumi Togashi, Takema Fukatsu |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2012-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22848648/?tool=EBI |
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