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SUBMITTER: Van Bael SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2690468 | biostudies-other | 2009 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Van Bael Sunshine A SA Fernández-Marín Hermógenes H Valencia Mariana C MC Rojas Enith I EI Wcislo William T WT Herre Edward A EA
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20090401 1666
Interactions among the component members of different symbioses are not well studied. For example, leaf-cutting ants maintain an obligate symbiosis with their fungal garden, while the leaf material they provide to their garden is usually filled with endophytic fungi. The ants and their cultivar may interact with hundreds of endophytic fungal species, yet little is known about these interactions. Experimental manipulations showed that (i) ants spend more time cutting leaves from a tropical vine, ...[more]