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Factors influencing the growth of Attamyces bromatificus, a symbiont of attine ants
Transactions of the British Mycological Society, 1986Investigations of conditions for optimum growth of the attine symbiont Attamyces bromatificus revealed that it was inhibited by light and grew best at temperatures between 20 and 25°C, while temperatures above 30° were lethal. Mean gongylidia size remained small in cultures at 15°.
R. J. Powell, D. J. Stradling
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Interactions among leaf toughness, chemistry, and harvesting by attine ants
Ecological Entomology, 1990Abstract. 1. Young and mature leaves of a tropical legume, Inga edulis var. minutula Schery, are strikingly different in secondary chemistry, especially condensed tannins, and leaf toughness. 2.
C. Nichols-orians, J. Schultz
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The amounts of trail pheromone substances in the venom of workers of four species of attine ants
Insect Biochemistry, 1983R P Evershed, E D Morgan
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The Origin of the Attine Ant-Fungus Mutualism
The Quarterly Review of Biology, 2001Cultivation of fungus for food originated about 45-65 million years ago in the ancestor of fungus-growing ants (Formicidae, tribe Attini), representing an evolutionary transition from the life of a hunter-gatherer of arthropod prey, nectar, and other plant juices, to the life of a farmer subsisting on cultivated fungi.
Mueller, Ulrich Gerhard +4 more
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Ancient Tripartite Coevolution in the Attine Ant-Microbe Symbiosis
Science, 2003The symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and the fungi they cultivate for food has been shaped by 50 million years of coevolution. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that this long coevolutionary history includes a third symbiont lineage: specialized microfungal parasites of the ants' fungus gardens.
Currie, Cameron Robert +8 more
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The Biochemical Basis of the Fungus-Attine Ant Symbiosis
Science, 1970The natural history of the fungus-growing ants provides a spectacular example of a symbiotic association of two very different types of organisms. An anthropomorphic description is difficult to resist. The ants are efficient and industrious farmers.
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Agro-predation: usurpation of attine fungus gardens by Megalomyrmex ants
Naturwissenschaften, 2000A new ant species of Megalomyrmex conducts mass raids to usurp gardens of the fungus-growing ant Cyphomyrmex longiscapus, then lives in the gardens and consumes the cultivated fungus. Unlike attine ants, however, Megalomyrmex sp. does not forage for substrate to manure the gardens; therefore, when gardens become depleted, Megalomyrmex sp.
R M, Adams +3 more
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Laboratory studies with Leucoagaricus and attine ants.
, 2001P. J. Fisher +6 more
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The Adaptiveness of Worker Demography in the Attine Ant Trachymyrmex Septentrionalis
Ecology, 1994Castle theory states that worker size distributions in ant colonies have evolved for efficient division of labor and predicts that they should vary with habitat and have an effect on fitness. We tested these predictions in a comparative study of worker size variation and colony fitness in Florida and Long Island populations of Trachymyrmex ...
Samuel N. Bershers +1 more
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Journal of Evolutionary Biology
Fungi are abundant and ecologically important at a global scale, but little is known about whether their thermal adaptations are shaped by biochemical constraints (i.e.
O. Hess +4 more
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Fungi are abundant and ecologically important at a global scale, but little is known about whether their thermal adaptations are shaped by biochemical constraints (i.e.
O. Hess +4 more
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