JL Sachs, UG Mueller, TP Wilcox… - The Quarterly review of …, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
Darwin recognized that natural selection could not favor a trait in one species solely for the benefit of another species. The modern, selfish-gene view of the world suggests that …
V Rico-Gray, PS Oliveira - 2008 - books.google.com
Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …
CR Currie, JA Scott, RC Summerbell, D Malloch - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The well-studied, ancient and highly evolved mutualism between fungus-growing ants and their fungi has become a model system in the study of symbiosis,. Although it is thought at …
An overview of the phylogeny of the Agaricales is presented based on a multilocus analysis of a six-gene region supermatrix. Bayesian analyses of 5611 nucleotide characters of rpb1 …
Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …
Mutualisms are of fundamental importance in all ecosystems but their very existence poses a series of challenging evolutionary questions. Recently, the application of molecular …
UG Mueller, LLR Wolfenbarger - Trends in ecology & evolution, 1999 - cell.com
Amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) are polymerase chain reaction (PCR)- based markers for the rapid screening of genetic diversity. AFLP methods rapidly generate …
▪ Abstract Agriculture has evolved independently in three insect orders: once in ants, once in termites, and seven times in ambrosia beetles. Although these insect farmers are in some …
TR Schultz, SG Brady - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Agriculture is a specialized form of symbiosis that is known to have evolved in only four animal groups: humans, bark beetles, termites, and ants. Here, we reconstruct the major …