Evolutionary patterns of proteinase activity in attine ant fungus gardens [PDF]
BMC Microbiology, 2011 Background Attine ants live in symbiosis with a basidiomycetous fungus that they rear on a substrate of plant material. This indirect herbivory implies that the symbiosis is likely to be nitrogen deprived, so that specific mechanisms may have evolved to ...
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Specialized Fungal Parasites and Opportunistic Fungi in Gardens of Attine Ants [PDF]
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 Ants in the tribe Attini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) comprise about 230 described species that share the same characteristic: all coevolved in an ancient mutualism with basidiomycetous fungi cultivated for food. In this paper we focused on fungi other than
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Male‐biased dispersal in a fungus‐gardening ant symbiosis [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2021 For nearly all organisms, dispersal is a fundamental life‐history trait that can shape their ecology and evolution. Variation in dispersal capabilities within a species exists and can influence population genetic structure and ecological interactions. In
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Isolation, Growth Characteristics, and Long-Term Storage of Fungi Cultivated by Attine Ants [PDF]
Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 1989 Seven pure-culture strains of fungi cultivated by attine ants (ant-garden fungi) were isolated from locally maintained leaf-cutting ant colonies. An ant-garden fungus strain obtained from an Atta cephalotes colony, when offered to ants of the colony from
Howard, Jerome J.
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Ciência Rural, 2004 Bioassays were conducted to verify the possibility of culturing the symbiont fungus of some higher attine in mineral medium and finding out the optimum pH value for their satisfactory mycelial growth.
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Digging into the evolutionary history of the fungus-growing-ant symbiont, Escovopsis (Hypocreaceae) [PDF]
Communications BiologySymbiotic relationships shape the evolution of organisms. Fungi in the genus Escovopsis share an evolutionary history with the fungus-growing “attine” ant system and are only found in association with these social insects. Despite this close relationship,
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Reconstructing the functions of endosymbiotic Mollicutes in fungus-growing ants [PDF]
eLife, 2018 Mollicutes, a widespread class of bacteria associated with animals and plants, were recently identified as abundant abdominal endosymbionts in healthy workers of attine fungus-farming leaf-cutting ants.
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Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant–fungus agricultural symbiosis [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Attine ants, including the leaf-cutting ants, cultivate fungi as their sole source of food. Here, Nygaard et al. use whole genome and transcriptome sequences from seven ant species and their fungal cultivars to reconstruct the reciprocal genetic changes ...
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Genomic insights into the evolution of secondary metabolism of Escovopsis and its allies, specialized fungal symbionts of fungus-farming ants [PDF]
mSystemsThe metabolic intimacy of symbiosis often demands the work of specialists. Natural products and defensive secondary metabolites can drive specificity by ensuring infection and propagation across host generations.
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From the inside out: Were the cuticular Pseudonocardia bacteria of fungus-farming ants originally domesticated as gut symbionts? [PDF]
PNAS NexusThe mutualistic interaction specificity between attine ants and antibiotic-producing Actinobacteria has been controversial because Pseudonocardia strains cannot always be isolated from worker cuticles across attine ant species, while other actinobacteria
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