Mehdiabadi, Natasha J.; Hughes, Benjamin; Mueller, Ulrich G. - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 2, pp. 291-296
Fungus-growing ants in the tribe Attini represent a classic example of a mutualism. These ants obligately depend on … fungus as their major food source, while the fungus receives both vegetative substrate (nourishment) from the ants and …