Association between Pseudonocardia symbionts and Atta leaf-cutting ants suggested by improved isolation methods [PDF]
, 2013 Fungus-growing ants associate with multiple symbiotic microbes, including Actinobacteria for production of antibiotics.The best studied of these bacteria are within the genus Pseudonocardia, which in most fungus-growing ants are conspicuouslyvisible on ...
Adrián Pinto-Tomás +5 more
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Bacterial symbiont sharing in Megalomyrmex social parasites and their fungus-growing ant hosts [PDF]
, 2015 Bacterial symbionts are important fitness determinants of insects. Some hosts have independently acquired taxonomically related microbes to meet similar challenges, but whether distantly related hosts that live in tight symbiosis can maintain similar ...
Adams, Rachelle Martha Marie +5 more
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Absence of the Parasite Escovopsis in Fungus Garden Pellets Carried by Gynes of Atta sexdens
Sociobiology, 2015 Before preparing for the mating flight gynes of leaf-cutting ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Attini) harvest and store in an infrabuccal pocket a small fragment of their fungus gardens. This pellet is the start culture of the mutualistic fungus when mated
Sinara Maria Moreira +3 more
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Towards a better understanding of the evolution of specialized parasites of fungus-growing ant crops [PDF]
, 2012 Fungus-growing ants have interacted and partly coevolved with specialised microfungal parasites of the genus Escovopsis since the origin of ant fungiculture about 50 million years ago.
Boomsma, Jacobus Jan +2 more
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Formigas cultivadoras de fungos: estado da arte e direcionamento para pesquisas futuras. [PDF]
, 2016 A tribo Attini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) compreende 14 gêneros com aproximadamente 230 espécies de formigas descritas que estão envolvidas em um mutualismo obrigatório com fungos.
NICKELE, M. A. +3 more
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The evolution of abdominal microbiomes in fungus-growing ants [PDF]
, 2019 International ...
Boomsma, Jacobus J. +3 more
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Investigations into stability in the fig/ fig-wasp mutualism [PDF]
, 2010 Fig trees (Ficus, Moraceae) and their pollinating wasps (Chalcidoidea, Agaonidae) are involved in an obligate mutualism where each partner relies on the other in order to reproduce: the pollinating fig wasps are a fig tree’s only pollen disperser ...
Al-Beidh, Sarah, Al-Beidh, Sarah
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BMC Microbiology, 2008 Background Leaf-cutting ants live in symbiosis with a fungus that they rear for food by providing it with live plant material. Until recently the fungus' main inferred function was to make otherwise inaccessible cell wall degradation products available ...
Lange Lene +3 more
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Abundance and dynamics of filamentous fungi in the complex ambrosia gardens of the primitively eusocial beetle Xyleborinus saxeseniiRatzeburg (Coleoptera: Curculionidae, Scolytinae) [PDF]
, 2017 Insect fungus gardens consist of a community of interacting microorganisms that can have either beneficial or detrimental effects to the farmers. In contrast to fungus-farming ants and termites, the fungal communities of ambrosia beetles and the effects ...
Biedermann, Peter H.W. +3 more
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Formicamycins, antibacterial polyketides produced by Streptomyces formicae isolated from African Tetraponera plant-ants [PDF]
, 2017 We report a new Streptomyces species named S. formicae that was isolated from the African fungus -growing plant-ant Tetraponera penzigi and show that it produces novel pentacyclic polyketides that are active against MRSA and VRE. The chemical scaffold of
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