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Pathogenicity of Escovopsis weberi: The parasite of the attine ant-microbe symbiosis directly consumes the ant-cultivated fungus

Hannah T. Reynolds
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Cameron R. Currie Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 1200 Sunnyside Ave., University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045Correspondence[email protected]
Pages 955-959 | Accepted 25 Mar 2004, Published online: 30 Jan 2017

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