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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Data from: The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and co-evolutionary history of 'higher-attine' ant agriculture [PDF]
, 2019 The fungus‐growing ants and their fungal cultivars constitute a classic example of a mutualism that has led to complex coevolutionary dynamics spanning c. 55–65 Ma.
Schultz, Ted R. +8 more
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Antagonistic bacterial interactions help shape host-symbiont dynamics within the fungus-growing ant-microbe mutualism. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2007 Conflict within mutually beneficial associations is predicted to destabilize relationships, and theoretical and empirical work exploring this has provided significant insight into the dynamics of cooperative interactions. Within mutualistic associations,
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First evidence of an intimate symbiotic association between fungi and larvae in basal attine ants [PDF]
, 2012 The most conspicuous ants in all of tropical America are those that belong to the tribe Attini which cultivate fungus. The objective of the present study is to verify the alterations that occur in the cuticle of the worker larvae from Myrmicocrypta ...
Maria Izabel Camargo Mathias +8 more
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Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012 Parental care is rare in most lower vertebrates. By selecting optimal oviposition sites, however, mothers can realize some benefits often associated with parental care. We found three ovoid reptilian eggs within a mature nest of a relatively basal fungus-
Gaspar Bruner +3 more
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Escovopsioides nivea (Ascomycota: Hypocreales): antagonist of fungi cultivated by attine ants [PDF]
, 2022 Interações entre organismos são comuns na natureza e responsáveis por manter o equilíbrio dos ecossistemas. O mutualismo entre as formigas atíneas e fungos é um exemplo clássico de simbiose.
Pietrobon, Tatiane de Castro [UNESP]
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Symbiotic complexity: discovery of a fifth symbiont in the attine ant–microbe symbiosis [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2007 The fungus-growing ant–microbe mutualism is a classic example of organismal complexity generated through symbiotic association. The ants have an ancient obligate mutualism with fungi they cultivate for food. The success of the mutualism is threatened by specialized fungal parasites ( Escovopsis ) that consume the ...
Ainslie E F, Little, Cameron R, Currie
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BMC Biology, 2010 Background Leaf-cutting (attine) ants use their own fecal material to manure fungus gardens, which consist of leaf material overgrown by hyphal threads of the basidiomycete fungus Leucocoprinus gongylophorus that lives in symbiosis with the ants ...
Boomsma Jacobus J +3 more
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Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant–fungus agricultural symbiosis
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 ...
Sanne Nygaard +16 more
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Ecology of microfungal communities in gardens of fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a year-long survey of three species of attine ants in Central Texas [PDF]
, 2011 We profiled the microfungal communities in gardens of fungus-growing ants to evaluate possible species-specific ant-microfungal associations and to assess the potential dependencies of microfungal diversity on ant foraging behavior.
Rodrigues, Andre [UNESP] +12 more
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