Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

• Publication date

  2011-07-12

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/s10482-011-9621-yPMID 21748399
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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