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Symbiont recruitment versus ant-symbiont co-evolution in the attine ant–microbe symbiosis

Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2012
The symbiosis between fungus-farming ants (Attini, Formicidae), their cultivated fungi, garden-infecting Escovopsis pathogens, and Pseudonocardia bacteria on the ant integument has been popularized as an example of ant-Escovopsis-Pseudonocardia co-evolution.
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The Chemical Basis for the Attine Ant-Fungus Symbiosis. Absence of Antibiotics

Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 1969
The theory that attine ants maintain pure cultures of their food fungi by application of antibiotics to their fungus gardens has been rendered untenable. Extracts prepared from the ant Atta colombica tonsipes Santschi, from its wild fungus gardens, from expended fungus gardens, and from laboratory cultures of its fungus have been assayed for antibiotic
Michael M. Martin, John G. Macconnell, Glen R. Gale   +2 more
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Pathogenicity ofEscovopsis weberi: The parasite of the attine ant-microbe symbiosis directly consumes the ant-cultivated fungus

Mycologia, 2004
Fungi in the genus Escovopsis are known only from the fungus gardens of attine ants. Previous work has established that these anamorphic fungi, allied with the Hypocreales, are specialized and potentially virulent parasites of the ancient mutualism between attine ants and their fungal cultivars. It is unclear whether the primary nutrient source for the
Reynolds, Hannah T., Currie, Cameron Robert   +1 more
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First evidence of an intimate symbiotic association between fungi and larvae in basal attine ants.

Micron, 2012
G. Ortiz, M. I. C. Mathias, O. Bueno
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Evolution of Substrate Preparation Behaviors for Cultivation of Symbiotic Fungus in Attine Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Journal of insect behavior, 2010
E. A. Diniz, O. Bueno
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Foraging ecology of attine ants in a Neotropical savanna: seasonal use of fungal substrate in the cerrado vegetation of Brazil

Insectes Sociaux, 2000
I. Leal, P. Oliveira
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Historical Note on Culturing Attine-Ant Fungi

Mycologia, 1979
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Social organization in two primitive attine ants,cyphomyrmex rimosus and myrmicocrypta ednaella, with reference to their fungus substrates and food sources

Journal of ethology, 2007
T. Murakami, S. Higashi
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Chemistry of metapleural gland secretions of three attine ants,Atta sexdens rubropilosa, Atta cephalotes, andAcromyrmex octospinosus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Journal of Chemical Ecology, 1996
Ruth R. do Nascimento, E. Schoeters, E. Morgan, J. Billen, David Stradling   +4 more
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Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017
Michael G Branstetter, Ana Jesovnik
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