Fungal farming in a non-social beetle.

Culturing of microbes for food production, called cultivation mutualism, has been well-documented from eusocial and subsocial insects such as ants, termites and ambrosia beetles, but poorly described from solitary, non-social insects. Here we report a fungal farming in a non-social lizard beetle Dou...

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Auteurs principaux: Wataru Toki, Masahiko Tanahashi, Katsumi Togashi, Takema Fukatsu
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/0ca8d62b327748aba630db9327318b5c
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