Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the <it>Apterostigma </it>fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis consists of coevolving microbial mutualists and pathogens. The diverse fungal lineages that these ants cultivate are attacked by parasitic microfungi of the genus <it>Escovopsis</it&g...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2006-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Evolutionary Biology |
| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/6/88 |