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Contribution of Fungal Loline Alkaloids to Protection from Aphids in a Grass-Endophyte Mutualism [PDF]

Molecular Plant-Microbe Interactions, 2000
Fungal endophytes provide grasses with enhanced protection from herbivory, drought, and pathogens. The loline alkaloids (saturated 1-aminopyrrolizidines with an oxygen bridge) are fungal metabolites often present in grasses with fungal endophytes of the ...
Heather H. Wilkinson, Malcolm R. Siegel, Jimmy D. Blankenship, Allison C. Mallory, Lowell P. Bush, Christopher L. Schardl   +5 more
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A model of co-occurrence: segregation and aggregation patterns in the mycoflora of the crayfish Procambarus clarkii in Lake Trasimeno (central Italy)

Journal of Limnology, 2012
Although attention on crayfish diseases has recently proliferated, the focus is mainly on a single host-parasite relationship rather than analyzing the entire mycoflora, probably due to the fact that (1) some diseases are occasional (pathogens of which ...
Antonia C. Elia, Massimilaino Scalici, Manuela D'Amen, Laura Garzoli, Ambrosius J.M. Dörr, Anna M. Picco, Marinella Rodolfi   +6 more
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Distinct and enhanced hygienic responses of a leaf‐cutting ant toward repeated fungi exposures

Ecology and Evolution, 2022
Leaf‐cutting ants and their fungal crops are a textbook example of a long‐term obligatory mutualism. Many microbes continuously enter their nest containing the fungal cultivars, destabilizing the symbiosis and, in some cases, outcompeting the mutualistic
Aryel C. Goes, Pepijn W. Kooij, Laurence Culot, Odair C. Bueno, Andre Rodrigues   +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, Virginia E. Masiulionis, Andre Rodrigues   +2 more
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Expanding Genomics of Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

Frontiers in Microbiology, 2014
The mycorrhizal symbiosis between soil fungi and plant roots is a ubiquitous mutualism that plays key roles in plant and soil health, and carbon and nutrient cycles. The symbiosis evolved repeatedly and independently as multiple morphological types (e.g.
Alan eKuo, Annegret eKohler, Francis Michel Martin, Igor V. Grigoriev   +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, Haofu Hu, Cai Li, Morten Schiøtt, Zhensheng Chen, Zhikai Yang, Qiaolin Xie, Chunyu Ma, Yuan Deng, Rebecca B. Dikow, Christian Rabeling, David R. Nash, William T. Wcislo, Seán G. Brady, Ted R. Schultz, Guojie Zhang, Jacobus J. Boomsma   +16 more
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Algal-fungal symbiosis leads to photosynthetic mycelium

eLife, 2019
Mutualistic interactions between free-living algae and fungi are widespread in nature and are hypothesized to have facilitated the evolution of land plants and lichens.
Zhi-Yan Du, Krzysztof Zienkiewicz, Natalie Vande Pol, Nathaniel E Ostrom, Christoph Benning, Gregory M Bonito   +5 more
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Molecular Dialogues between Early Divergent Fungi and Bacteria in an Antagonism versus a Mutualism

mBio, 2020
Fungal-bacterial symbioses range from antagonisms to mutualisms and remain one of the least understood interdomain interactions despite their ubiquity as well as ecological and medical importance.
Olga A. Lastovetsky, Lev D. Krasnovsky, Xiaotian Qin, Maria L. Gaspar, Andrii P. Gryganskyi, Marcel Huntemann, Alicia Clum, Manoj Pillay, Krishnaveni Palaniappan, Neha Varghese, Natalia Mikhailova, Dimitrios Stamatis, T. B. K. Reddy, Chris Daum, Nicole Shapiro, Natalia Ivanova, Nikos Kyrpides, Tanja Woyke, Teresa E. Pawlowska   +18 more
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Fungal Pathogens in Grasslands

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2021
Grasslands are major primary producers and function as major components of important watersheds. Although a concise definition of grasslands cannot be given using a physiognomic or structural approach, grasslands can be described as vegetation ...
Anuruddha Karunarathna, Anuruddha Karunarathna, Anuruddha Karunarathna, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Ruvishika S. Jayawardena, Ruvishika S. Jayawardena, Chandrika Nanayakkara, Suhail Asad, Jianchu Xu, Jianchu Xu, Kevin D. Hyde, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Steven L. Stephenson, Saisamorn Lumyong, Saisamorn Lumyong, Saisamorn Lumyong, Jaturong Kumla, Jaturong Kumla   +19 more
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Parasitism to mutualism continuum for Joshua trees inoculated with different communities of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi from a desert elevation gradient.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Most desert plants form symbiotic relationships with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), yet fungal identity and impacts on host plants remain largely unknown.
Jennifer T Harrower, Gregory S Gilbert
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