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PLoS ONE, 2014 Attine ants cultivate fungi as their most important food source and in turn the fungus is nourished, protected against harmful microorganisms, and dispersed by the ants.
Virginia E Masiulionis +6 more
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Ecology and Evolution, Volume 11, Issue 11, Page 6041-6052, June 2021., 2021 We studied two sympatric Apterostigma fungus‐growing ants (Attini) species and their symbiotic fungal cultivars which are attacked by multiple morphotypes of parasitic fungi in the genus, Escovopsis. We assessed in vitro and in vivo interactions of these parasites with their hosts to understand, in the context of a multihost, multiparasite system, the ...
Yuliana Christopher +5 more
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BMC Biology, 2010 Background Attine ants live in an intensely studied tripartite mutualism with the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which provides food to the ants, and with antibiotic-producing actinomycete bacteria.
Barke Jörg +8 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2020 Objective The objective of this study is to develop and identify polymorphic microsatellite markers for fungus-gardening (attine) ants in the genus Trachymyrmex sensu lato.
Alix E. Matthews +4 more
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Yet more "weeds" in the garden: fungal novelties from nests of leaf-cutting ants. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Symbiotic relationships modulate the evolution of living organisms in all levels of biological organization. A notable example of symbiosis is that of attine ants (Attini; Formicidae: Hymenoptera) and their fungal cultivars (Lepiotaceae and Pterulaceae ...
Juliana O Augustin +6 more
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Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND : The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions.
Boomsma, Jacobus J. +3 more
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AN EVALUATION OF THE POSSIBLE ADAPTIVE FUNCTION OF FUNGAL BROOD COVERING BY ATTINE ANTS
Evolution, 2012 Fungus-growing ants (Myrmicinae: Attini) live in an obligate symbiotic relationship with a fungus that they rear for food, but they can also use the fungal mycelium to cover their brood. We surveyed colonies from 20 species of fungus-growing ants and show that brood-covering behavior occurs in most species, but to varying degrees, and appears to have ...
Sophie A. O. Armitage +3 more
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Bacterial microbiomes from vertically-transmitted fungal inocula of the leaf-cutting ant Atta texana [PDF]
, 2016 Microbiome surveys provide clues for the functional roles of symbiotic microbial communities and their hosts. In this study, we elucidated bacterial microbiomes associated with the vertically transmitted fungal inocula (pellets) used by foundress queens ...
Bacci, Maurício, Jr. +7 more
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Leucoagaricus gongylophorus uses leaf-cutting ants to vector proteolytic enzymes towards new plant substrate [PDF]
, 2014 The mutualism between leaf-cutting ants and their fungal symbionts revolves around processing and inoculation of fresh leaf pulp in underground fungus gardens, mediated by ant fecal fluid deposited on the newly added plant substrate.
Boomsma, Jacobus Jan +5 more
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Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 2019 The antibiotic streptazolin (1), its E-isomer (2), along with the stereoisomers strepchazolin A (3) and strepchazolin B (4) and the inorganic compound cyclooctasulfur (5) were produced in solid culture by Streptomyces chartreusis ICBG377, which was ...
Humberto E. Ortega +4 more
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