Figure S1 - Symbiont Interactions in a Tripartite Mutualism: Exploring the Presence and Impact of Antagonism between Two Fungus-Growing Ant Mutualists

Schematic overview of the objectives and methods of our study: the cross-phylogeny bioassay experiments (left panel), the within-Acromyrmex bioassay experiments (middle panel), and the sub-colony evaluation of the role of in vitro antagonism on stability of novel in vivo sub-colony ant-fungus-bacterium combinations (see main text for details).
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