Browsing by Author "Marten, Andreas"
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Open relationships in the castles of clay: high diversity and low host specificity of Termitomyces fungi associated with fungus-growing termites in Africa
Lagat, Zipporah Osiemo; Marten, Andreas; Kaib, M.; Gitonga, L. M.; Boga, H. I.; Brandl, R. (International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI), 2010-08)In the African and Asian tropics, termites of the subfamily Macrotermitinae play a major role in the decomposition of dead plant material. Their ecological success lies in the obligate mutualism of the termites with fungi ...