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SUBMITTER: Blaz J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6463014 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Blaz Jazmín J Barrera-Redondo Josué J Vázquez-Rosas-Landa Mirna M Canedo-Téxon Anahí A Aguirre von Wobeser Eneas E Carrillo Daniel D Stouthamer Richard R Eskalen Akif A Villafán Emanuel E Alonso-Sánchez Alexandro A Lamelas Araceli A Ibarra-Juarez Luis Arturo LA Pérez-Torres Claudia Anahí CA Ibarra-Laclette Enrique E
Life (Basel, Switzerland) 20181222 1
Mutualistic symbiosis and eusociality have developed through gradual evolutionary processes at different times in specific lineages. Like some species of termites and ants, ambrosia beetles have independently evolved a mutualistic nutritional symbiosis with fungi, which has been associated with the evolution of complex social behaviors in some members of this group. We sequenced the transcriptomes of two ambrosia complexes (<i>Euwallacea</i> sp. near <i>fornicatus</i>⁻<i>Fusarium euwallaceae</i> ...[more]