Within‐colony transmission and the cost of a mutualistic bacterium in the leaf‐cutting ant Acromyrmex octospinosus
- 23 April 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Functional Ecology
- Vol. 17 (2), 260-269
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2435.2003.00726.x
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