Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis.

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• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  New Phytologist

• Publication date

  2009-06-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02793.xPMID 19383109
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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