EntomoBrasilis, 2014 The metapleural gland (MPG) is an exocrine structure, exclusive to formicids, being more developed in females and workers. This structure is stunted or nonexistent in males.
Luciane Junqueira, Elena Diehl
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New Light on the Systematics of Fungi Associated with Attine Ant Gardens and the Description ofﾠEscovopsis kreiseliiﾠsp. nov. [PDF]
, 2015 Since the formal description of fungi in the genus Escovopsis in 1990, only a few studies have focused on the systematics of this group. For more than two decades, only two Escovopsis species were described; however, in 2013, three additional Escovopsis ...
Meirelles, Lucas A. +3 more
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Generation of Nutrients and Detoxification: Possible Roles of Yeasts in Leaf-Cutting Ant Nests
Insects, 2012 The possible roles played by yeasts in attine ant nests are mostly unknown. Here we present our investigations on the plant polysaccharide degradation profile of 82 yeasts isolated from fungus gardens of Atta and Acromyrmex species to demonstrate that ...
Fernando C. Pagnocca +4 more
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Microorganisms, 2021 The rapid emergence of bacterial resistance to antibiotics has urged the need to find novel bioactive compounds against resistant microorganisms. For that purpose, different strategies are being followed, one of them being exploring secondary metabolite ...
Ana Ceniceros +5 more
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Group-wise 3D registration based templates to study the evolution of ant worker neuroanatomy [PDF]
, 2017 The evolutionary success of ants and other social insects is considered to be intrinsically linked to division of labor and emergent collective intelligence.
Arganda, Sara +4 more
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Specialized Fungal Parasites and Opportunistic Fungi in Gardens of Attine Ants
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
Fernando C. Pagnocca +2 more
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Symbiont choice in a fungus-growing ant (Attini, Formicidae) [PDF]
Behavioral Ecology, 2004 Cultivars of fungus-growing (attine) ants are vertically transmitted through inheritance from parent to offspring nest, but horizontal cultivar transfer between ant nests occurs occasionally, resulting in cultivar replacement within ant lineages. Two mechanisms could theoretically prevent the invasion of suboptimal cultivar strains and thus stabilize ...
Mueller, Ulrich Gerhard +2 more
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A checklist of the non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from Colombia, with new biogeographic records [PDF]
Check List, 2020 The non-leaf-cutting fungus-growing ants deposited in two entomological collections in Colombia were curated and identified to assess their diversity in the country.
Daniela Mera-Rodríguez +4 more
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Formigas cultivadoras de fungos: estado da arte e direcionamento para pesquisas futuras
Pesquisa Florestal Brasileira, 2013 A tribo Attini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) compreende 14 gêneros com aproximadamente 230 espécies de formigas descritas que estão envolvidas em um mutualismo obrigatório com fungos.
Mariane Aparecida Nickele +3 more
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Integrating Weakly Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation into Neural Machine Translation
, 2018 This paper demonstrates that word sense disambiguation (WSD) can improve neural machine translation (NMT) by widening the source context considered when modeling the senses of potentially ambiguous words.
Henderson, James +3 more
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