Fungiculture or Termite Husbandry? The Ruminant Hypothesis

Genomic revelations of a mutualism: the pea aphid and its obligate bacterial symbiont

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Farming termites determine the genetic population structure of Termitomyces fungal symbionts

(2011) TÂNIA NOBRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Dating the fungus-growing termites’ mutualism shows a mixture between ancient codiversification and recent symbiont dispersal across divergent hosts

(2011) T. NOBRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microbiome of Fungus-Growing Termites: a New Reservoir for Lignocellulase Genes

(2010) Ning Liu et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Potential of termite-based biomass pre-treatment strategies for use in bioethanol production

(2010) Michael E. Scharf et al.   Insect Science

Comparison of gut-associated and nest-associated microbial communities of a fungus-growing termite (Odontotermes yunnanensis)

(2010) Yan-Hua Long et al.   Insect Science

Mutualistic mycorrhiza-like symbiosis in the most ancient group of land plants

(2010) Claire P. Humphreys et al.   Nature Communications

Extraordinarily widespread and fantastically complex: comparative biology of endosymbiotic bacterial and fungal mutualists of insects

(2009) Cara M. Gibson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Vertical transmission as the key to the colonization of Madagascar by fungus-growing termites?

(2009) T. Nobre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2009) D. K. Aanen et al.   SCIENCE

Insects as hosts for mutualistic bacteria

(2008) H FELDHAAR et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE