Journal article
Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungusgrowing ant symbiosis
Abstract
Fungus-growing ants, their cultivated fungi and the cultivar-attacking parasite Escovopsis coevolve as a complex community. Higher-level phylogenetic congruence of the symbionts suggests specialized long-term associations of host-parasite clades but reveals little about parasite specificity at finer scales of species-species and genotype-genotype interactions. By coupling sequence and amplified fragment length polymorphism genotyping analyses …
Authors
Gerardo NM; Mueller UG; Price SL; Currie CR
Journal
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Vol. 271, No. 1550, pp. 1791–1798
Publisher
The Royal Society
Publication Date
September 7, 2004
DOI
10.1098/rspb.2004.2792
ISSN
0962-8452