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Enrichment and Broad Representation of Plant Biomass-Degrading Enzymes in the Specialized Hyphal Swellings of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the Fungal Symbiont of Leaf-Cutter Ants.

PLoS ONE, 2015
Leaf-cutter ants are prolific and conspicuous constituents of Neotropical ecosystems that derive energy from specialized fungus gardens they cultivate using prodigious amounts of foliar biomass.
Frank O Aylward, Lily Khadempour, Daniel M Tremmel, Bradon R McDonald, Carrie D Nicora, Si Wu, Ronald J Moore, Daniel J Orton, Matthew E Monroe, Paul D Piehowski, Samuel O Purvine, Richard D Smith, Mary S Lipton, Kristin E Burnum-Johnson, Cameron R Currie   +14 more
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Rhythmic Foraging in the Leaf-Cutting Ant Atta cephalotes (L.) (Formicidae: Attini)

The Journal of Animal Ecology, 1974
The foraging behaviour of leaf-cutting ants can be divided into three broad aspects; namely, the spatial distribution of foraging around nests, the type and amount of vegetation collected by foragers, and the timing of activity during each 24-h cycle.
Lewis, T., Pollard, G. V., Dibley, G. C.
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Discovery of defense- and neuropeptides in social ants by genome-mining.

PLoS ONE, 2012
Natural peptides of great number and diversity occur in all organisms, but analyzing their peptidome is often difficult. With natural product drug discovery in mind, we devised a genome-mining approach to identify defense- and neuropeptides in the ...
Christian W Gruber, Markus Muttenthaler
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Identificación de las feromonas de trilla de hormigas cortadoras (formicidae: attini)1

Revista Colombiana de Química, 2010
Del extracto en diclorometano de las glándulas de veneno de las hormigas cortadoras: Atta laevigata, Atta bisphaerica, Acromyrmex subterraneus molestans.
Oscar Marino Mosquera, Joao Sabino de Oliveira   +1 more
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Beetles, ants, wasps, or flies? An ethnobiological study of edible insects among the Awajún Amerindians in Amazonas, Peru

Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2018
Background Insects are known to be able to provide valuable nutrients to indigenous populations across the Amazon. However, studies on traditional insect use in the Peruvian Amazon are scarce.
Rubén Casas Reátegui, Lukas Pawera, Pablo Pedro Villegas Panduro, Zbynek Polesny   +3 more
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Caste- and environment-associated differential expression of olfactory receptors in pest ants

Scientific Reports
As human society continues to grow and evolve, so does the need for effective pest management strategies. Olfactory-mediated control methods, such as attractant and repellent compounds, are a proposed strategy for mitigating the damaging effects of some ...
Kayli R. Sieber, Maya Saar, Nicholas Newell, Katrina Fernandez, Flávia P. Franco, Fernando R. Sujimoto, Charlotte B. Francoeur, Roberto M. Pereira, Cameron R. Currie, José Mauricio Simões Bento, Hua Yan   +10 more
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TRADITIONAL USE OF THREE EDIBLE INSECTS IN COFFEE AGROECOSYSTEMS IN THE STATE OF VERACRUZ

Tropical and Subtropical Agroecosystems, 2012
Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) is one of the most economically, socioculturally and environmentally important crops in Veracruz. Shade-grown coffee plantations provide environmental services and play a key role in biodiversity conservation.
Esteban Escamilla Prado, Stephany Escamilla Femat, Juan Miguel Gómez Utrilla, Julieta Ramos Elorduy, José Manuel Pino Moreno   +4 more
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Bacterial communities of fungus-growing ant queens are species-specific and suggest vertical transmission.

PLoS ONE
Multipartite symbioses are inherently complex, involving dynamic ecological interactions between organisms with intertwined yet distinct evolutionary histories.
Victoria A Sadowski, Panagiotis Sapountzis, Pepijn W Kooij, Jacobus J Boomsma, Rachelle M M Adams   +4 more
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Pheidole praehistorica sp. nov., a new addition to spiny ants of the genus Pheidole Westwood, 1839 (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) from Oligo–Miocene Mexican amber

European Journal of Taxonomy
A fossil species of ant, Pheidole praehistorica sp. nov. (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae), is described and illustrated from the late Oligocene and early Miocene amber-bearing beds of Mexico.
Fernando Varela-Hernández, Francisco Riquelme   +1 more
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Especies de hormigas del suelo en el Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona, Pacífico Colombiano

Revista de Biología Tropical, 2014
Este trabajo compila registros publicados (1991) y no publicados (2006) sobre las especies de hormigas del PNN Gorgona y aporta nuevos registros de especies recolectadas en 2010. Se recopiló información de 15 diferentes sitios de isla Gorgona (13.82km²),
Stephany Valdés-Rodríguez, Patricia Chacón de Ulloa, Inge Armbrecht   +2 more
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