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Nest Biology and Demography of the Fungus-Growing Ant Cyphomyrmex lectus Forel (Myrmicinae; Attini) at a Disturbed Area Located in Rio Claro, SP, Brazil

Sociobiology, 2015
Cyphomyrmex ants are a basal group of small fungus-growers (Myrmicinae:Attini), which differ profoundly from their most studied relatives Atta and Acromyrmex.
Lucimeire S. Ramos Lacau, Paulo Sávio Damásio Silva, Jacques Hubert Charles Delabie, Sébastien Lacau, Odair Correa Bueno   +4 more
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Nesting Biology and Fungiculture of the Fungus-Growing Ant, Mycetagroicus cerradensis: New Light on the Origin of Higher Attine Agriculture [PDF]

, 2011
The genus Mycetagroicus is perhaps the least known of all fungus-growing ant genera, having been first described in 2001 from museum specimens. A recent molecular phylogenetic analysis of the fungus-growing ants demonstrated that Mycetagroicus is the ...
Andre Rodrigues, Bolton BG, Brandão CRF, Brandão CRF, Cauê T. Lopes, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Hölldobler B, Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo, Maddison DR, Moser JC, Moser JC, Rabeling C, Scott E. Solomon, Swofford DL, Ted R. Schultz, Ulrich G. Mueller, Zwickl DJ   +16 more
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The macroecology of butyrate‐producing bacteria via metagenomic assessment of butyrate production capacity

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 5, May 2024.
Butyrate‐producing bacteria produce the short‐chain fatty acid butyrate and are vital to ecosystem functionality and human health, but the macroecological influences on their biogeographical distribution remain poorly resolved. Here we developed new normalised butyrate production capacity (BPC) indices derived from global metagenomic (n = 13,078) and ...
Joel E. Brame, Craig Liddicoat, Catherine A. Abbott, Robert A. Edwards, Jake M. Robinson, Nicolas E. Gauthier, Martin F. Breed   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cellulase Production by Trichosporon laibachii

Orbital: The Electronic Journal of Chemistry, 2017
The ability of twenty-three yeast strains isolated from decayed wood and the fungus garden of attine ants to produce hemi- and cellulolytic hydrolases in a chemically defined medium was screened.
Ellen C. Giese, Kelly J. Dussán, Maurício Pierozzi, Anuj K. Chandel, Fernando C. Pagnocca, Silvio Silvério da Silva   +5 more
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Diversity of mycobiota in colonies of different species of leaf-cutting ants and sampling sites across Argentina

Ecología Austral, 2017
Attine ants are a monophyletic group comprising more than 230 species, distributed exclusively in the New World. All higher Attini ants depend on the cultivation of fungus gardens for food, and those gardens are continuously exposed to alien ...
Jorge A. Marfetán, Patricia J. Folgarait   +1 more
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A bibliography of the leaf-cutting ants, Atta spp. and Acromyrmex spp., up to 1975 [PDF]

, 1989
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Cherrett, F. J., Cherrett, J. M.
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Sperm mixing in the polyandrous leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior [PDF]

, 2014
The insemination of queens by sperm from multiple males (polyandry) has evolved in a number of eusocial insect lineages despite the likely costs of the behavior.
Boomsma, Jacobus J, Hughes, William O H, Nash, David R, Stürup, Marlene   +3 more
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Phylogenetic distribution, stability and function of attine ant gut microbiota [PDF]

, 2014
Boomsma, Jacobus J., Hansen, Lars H., Nash, David R., Sapountzis, Panagiotis, Schiott, Morten, Sorensen, Soren J.   +5 more
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Cooperative Breeding in the Ambrosia Beetle Xyleborus affinis and Management of Its Fungal Symbionts

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Fungus-farming is known from attine ants, macrotermites, and ambrosia beetles (Scolytinae, Platypodinae). Farming ant and termite societies are superorganismal and grow fungal cultivars in monocultures.
Peter H. W. Biedermann, Peter H. W. Biedermann, Peter H. W. Biedermann   +2 more
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Potential Distribution of Six North American Higher-Attine Fungus-Farming Ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) Species [PDF]

Journal of Insect Science, 2019
AbstractAnts are among the most successful insects in Earth’s evolutionary history. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding range-limiting factors that may influence their distribution. The goal of this study was to describe the environmental factors (climate and soil types) that likely impact the ranges of five out of the eight most abundant ...
Katrin Kellner, Jon N Seal, Ulrich G Mueller, Joshua A Banta, Joseph T Scavetta, Sarah F Senula   +5 more
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