205:- whose biography Moeller wrote. Alfred Moeller was undertaking a detailed study of local fungi for the Berlin Academy. His two-year field work in 1890 and 1891 resulted in his elaborate publication about attine ants and fungus entitled "The mushroom garden of some South American ants" about several fungus species in ant gardens.
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Mikrobiol. 1972; 12(8):643–654
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is a species of fungus that was rediscovered in 1995 by
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32:Scientific classification
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335:Escovopsis lentecrescens
239:Rediscovery and taxonomy
899:Fungi described in 1995
718:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
421:"2011 Annual Checklist"
316:Three more species of
142:Seifert, Samson &
118:E. aspergilloides
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329:Escovopsis microspora
427:, Reading, UK., 2011
303:Phialocladus zsoltii
225:ant–fungus mutualism
215:ant-fungus mutualism
209:Ant-fungus mutualism
712:Mycocepurus goeldii
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608:1966Sci...153..587W
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551:(5191): 1691–1694.
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323:Escovopsis moelleri
250:Trachymyrmex ruthae
168:fungus-growing ants
685:nomen invalidum".
247:from nests of the
229:obligate symbiosis
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255:E. aspergilloides
221:leaf-cutting ants
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693:: 191–195.
679:Escovopsis
354:References
318:Escovopsis
307:Escovopsis
289:Escovopsis
272:conidia."
172:Escovopsis
104:Escovopsis
55:Ascomycota
50:Division:
784:Q10489037
687:Mycotaxon
382:Mycologia
311:E. weberi
275:American
190:Discovery
180:E. weberi
176:described
112:Species:
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806:Fungorum
778:Wikidata
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738:25576160
632:31919824
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581:22831839
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516:The Ants
342:See also
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261:by its "
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403:JSTOR
227:- an
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