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Within-colony transmission and the cost of a mutualistic bacterium in the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex octospinosus |
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| Authors: | M Poulsen†‡ A N M Bot C R Currie§ M G Nielsen¶ J J Boomsma‡ |
| Institution: | Department of Ecology and Genetics, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark,;Department of Population Ecology, Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark,;Section of Integrative Biology, Patterson Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA, and;Department of Zoology, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark |
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| Keywords: | Acromyrmex mutualism respiration Streptomyces |