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A Brazilian Social Bee Must Cultivate Fungus to Survive

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Current issues in the evolutionary ecology of ant-plant symbioses

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Polygyny in the nest-site limited acacia-ant Crematogaster mimosae

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Towards next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding

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Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions

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Not all ants are equal: obligate acacia ants provide different levels of protection against mega-herbivores

(2010) Dino J. Martins   AFRICAN JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

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The diversity of ant-associated black yeasts: insights into a newly discovered world of symbiotic interactions

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An open source software package for automated extraction of ITS1 and ITS2 from fungal ITS sequences for use in high-throughput community assays and molecular ecology

(2010) R. Henrik Nilsson et al.   Fungal Ecology

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

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Synergy of multiple partners, including freeloaders, increases host fitness in a multispecies mutualism

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Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen

(2010) E. Defossez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

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Breakdown of an Ant-Plant Mutualism Follows the Loss of Large Herbivores from an African Savanna

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