Carbon dioxide sensing in an obligate insect-fungus symbiosis: CO2 preferences of leaf-cutting ants to rear their mutualistic fungus. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Defense against biotic or abiotic stresses is one of the benefits of living in symbiosis. Leaf-cutting ants, which live in an obligate mutualism with a fungus, attenuate thermal and desiccation stress of their partner through behavioral responses, by ...
Daniela Römer +2 more
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Comparative FISH-mapping of TTAGG telomeric sequences to the chromosomes of leafcutter ants (Formicidae, Myrmicinae): is the insect canonical sequence conserved? [PDF]
Comparative Cytogenetics, 2020 Telomeric sequences are conserved across species. The most common sequence reported among insects is (TTAGG)n, but its universal occurrence is not a consensus because other canonical motifs have been reported.
Carini Picardi Moraes de Castro +3 more
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Isocycloseram: A new active ingredient for leaf-cutting ants control. [PDF]
PLoS ONELeaf-cutting ants are the most important pests in several cropping systems in the Neotropics. Granulated baits containing active ingredients, considered hazardous by the Stockholm Convention, are the usual method to control these ants. Isocycloseram is a
Ronald Zanetti +5 more
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Control of pest ants by pathogenic fungi: state of the art. [PDF]
Front Fungal Biol, 2023 Pest ants are known for their damage to biodiversity, harm to agriculture, and negative impact on human welfare. Ants thrive when environmental opportunities arise, becoming pests and/or invading non-native areas.
Folgarait PJ, Goffré D.
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Behavioral strategies of phorid parasitoids and responses of their hosts, the leaf-cutting ants. [PDF]
J Insect Sci, 2012 Host-searching and oviposition behaviors of parasitoids, and defensive responses of the hosts, are fundamental in shaping the ecology of host-parasitoid interactions.
Elizalde L, Folgarait PJ.
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Growth and Conidiation Response of Escovopsis weberi (Ascomycota: Hypocreales) Against the Fungal Cultivar of <I>Acromyrmex lundii</I> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) [PDF]
Environmental Entomology, 2011 ABSTRACT Leaf-cutter ants (Acromyrmex and Atta spp.) exhibit ancient and complex interactions with the symbiotic fungus Leucoagaricus (Basidiomycetes: Agaricales) from which they feed, and with the virulent and specific fungus Escovopsis weberi J.J. Muchovej & Delia Lucia (Ascomycetes: Hypocreales) that attacks the ants' fungal gardens.
P. J. Folgarait +2 more
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Foraging of Psilocybe basidiocarps by the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex lobicornis in Santa Fé, Argentina. [PDF]
Springerplus, 2013 Masiulionis VE, Weber RW, Pagnocca FC.
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Dieta de la viuda negra, Latrodectus mirabilis (Theridiidae) en dos cultivos de cereales del centro de Argentina [PDF]
, 2013 La araña Latrodectus mirabilis (Holmberg, 1876) se encuentra comúnmente en cultivos de cereales del centro de Argentina. Se estudió la composición de la dieta a campo y la tasa de captura sobre hormigas cortadoras negras a laboratorio.
Copperi, Maria Sofia +5 more
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Ensambles de ácaros oribátidos en hormigueros de Acromyrmex spp. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
Ecología Austral, 2013 Los hormigueros de varias especies de Acromyrmex presentan sobre el suelo una elevación (túmulo), que posee condiciones micro climáticas estables y ofrece un ambiente atractivo para ácaros oribátidos y otros invertebrados edáficos.
Luciano Peralta, Pablo A. Martínez
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Biocontrol of leucoagaricus gongylophorus of leaf-cutting ants with the mycoparasitic agent trichoderma koningiopsis [PDF]
, 2016 Leaf-cutting ants are one of the main agricultural and agroforestry pests in the Neotropic region. The essential food source of these ants is Leucoagaricus gongylophorus.
Bich, Gustavo Angel +3 more
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