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The Secret to a Long-Lasting, Mutual Relationship (1 of 4)

Caption: This is a Macrotermes worker with fungus garden nodules. This image relates to an article that appeared in the Nov. 20 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The study, by Dr. Duur Aanen of Wageningen University and Research Center in Wageningen, Netherlands, and colleagues was titled, "High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites."

Credit: [Image courtesy of Jacobus J. Boomsma]

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