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PARTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN ANTS AND SYMBIOTIC FUNGI IN TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF ACROMYRMEX LEAF‐CUTTING ANTS | Semantic Scholar

@article{Bot2001PARTIALIB,
  title={PARTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY BETWEEN ANTS AND SYMBIOTIC FUNGI IN TWO SYMPATRIC SPECIES OF ACROMYRMEX LEAF‐CUTTING ANTS},
  author={Adriane N. M. Bot and Stephen A. Rehner and Jacobus J. Boomsma and Jacobus J. Boomsma},
  journal={Evolution},
  year={2001},
  volume={55},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:25817643}
}

It is shown that incompatibility between ants and transplanted, genetically different cultivars is indeed due to active killing of the novel cultivar by the ants, consistent with the hypothesis of recognition induced by the resident fungus and eventual replacement of incompatibility compounds during force‐feeding.

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