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 which the fungus was isolated, was accepted as their own ...
J. Cazin, D. Wiemer, J. J. Howard
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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.
Aileen Berasategui +9 more
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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
Innocent TM +6 more
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Extreme specificity in obligate mutualism-A role for competition? [PDF]
Ecol EvolThe high degree of specificity in obligate mutualisms is driven by competition within obligate mutualist guilds that limits species richness. As mutualistic partners are completely dependent on each other for fitness gains, competition may be particularly potent in these mutualisms.
Agarwal R, Althoff DM.
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Harnessing Nutritional Niches to Explore Fungus-Animal Symbioses. [PDF]
Ecol LettThe stability of fungus‐animal symbioses often depends on optimised nutrient exchange, but we lack a framework to explore whether animal‐derived nutrients are optimal for fungal symbionts. This conceptual gap has constrained studies of how fungus‐animal symbioses achieve ecological success as well as predictions about their evolutionarily stability ...
Shik JZ, Dussutour A, De Fine Licht HH.
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Bacterial communities of fungus-growing ant queens are species-specific and suggest vertical transmission. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMultipartite symbioses are inherently complex, involving dynamic ecological interactions between organisms with intertwined yet distinct evolutionary histories.
Victoria A Sadowski +4 more
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SociobiologyThe ability to recognize nestmates is critical to the ecological success of social insects. Fungus-farming “attine” ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini: Attina) can recognize their nestmates and symbiotic fungi via chemoreception.
Diego Santana Assis +4 more
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Northern extent of attine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
, 1970 xBio:D Automated ...
N. A. Weber, Norm Johnson, Joe Cora
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Behavior of the group-predatory antProatta butteli (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): An old world relative of the attine ants [PDF]
Insectes Sociaux, 1986 xBio:D Automated ...
M. Moffett
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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.
Alci Enimar Loeck +3 more
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