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Science 23 May 2008:
Vol. 320. no. 5879, pp. 1006 - 1007
DOI: 10.1126/science.320.5879.1006

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COMMUNITY ECOLOGY:
All That Makes Fungus Gardens Grow

Elsa Youngsteadt

The discovery of a parasitic yeast draws attention to the ways that pathogens can stabilize ant agriculture and other symbiotic networks.

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THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants.
R. Sen, H. D. Ishak, D. Estrada, S. E. Dowd, E. Hong, and U. G. Mueller (2009)
PNAS 106, 17805-17810
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