Symbiont Interactions in a Tripartite Mutualism: Exploring the Presence and Impact of Antagonism between Two Fungus-Growing Ant Mutualists
Figure 8
The results of the sub-colony experiment evaluating the effect of cultivar antagonisms on the abundance of Pseudonocardia on the cuticle of sub-colony workers.
Means±SE of three sub-colonies, each containing three major workers carrying Pseudonocardia, are given, and values correspond to a scale from 0–12 [65]. The direction of antagonism observed in vitro is indicated next to the legend (see Fig. 7).