Microbiome, 2020 Background Antibiotic treatment has a well-established detrimental effect on the gut bacterial composition, but effects on the fungal community are less clear. Bacteria in the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract may limit fungal colonization and invasion.
Bastian Seelbinder +17 more
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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks vary throughout the growing season and between successional stages. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 To date, few analyses of mutualistic networks have investigated successional or seasonal dynamics. Combining interaction data from multiple time points likely creates an inaccurate picture of the structure of networks (because these networks are ...
Alison Elizabeth Bennett +7 more
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A simple plant–mycorrhizal fungal resource trade co-evolution model explains mutualism stability, extinction and transitory parasitism via fitness feedback [PDF]
New PhytologistFelipe E Albornoz +2 more
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Fungal mycelia and bacterial thiamine establish a mutualistic growth mechanism
Life Science Alliance, 2020 Bacterial cells travel along fungal highway and pay thiamine as a toll to the fungus. Simultaneous spatial and metabolic interactions in communicating bacterial and fungal species establish a mutualism that facilitates them to obtain an environmental ...
Gayan Abeysinghe +11 more
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Distinctive fungal communities in an obligate African ant-plant mutualism [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2017 Three ant species nest obligately in the swollen-thorn domatia of the African ant-plantVachellia(Acacia)drepanolobium, a model system for the study of ant-defence mutualisms and species coexistence. Here we report on the characteristic fungal communities generated by these ant species in their domatia. First, we describe behavioural differences between
Christopher C. M. Baker +6 more
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Endosymbiont-Dependent Host Reproduction Maintains Bacterial-Fungal Mutualism [PDF]
Current Biology, 2007 Bacterial endosymbionts play essential roles for many organisms, and thus specialized mechanisms have evolved during evolution that guarantee the persistence of the symbiosis during or after host reproduction. The rice seedling blight fungus Rhizopus microsporus represents a unique example of a mutualistic life form in which a fungus harbors ...
Partida-Martinez, Laila P. +3 more
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Mutualism and asexual reproduction influence recognition genes in a fungal symbiont [PDF]
Fungal Biology, 2013 Mutualism between microbes and insects is common and alignment of the reproductive interests of microbial symbionts with this lifestyle typically involves clonal reproduction and vertical transmission by insect partners. Here the Amylostereum fungus-Sirex woodwasp mutualism was used to consider whether their prolonged association and predominance of ...
Van der Nest, Magrieta Aletta +6 more
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Epichloë Endophyte-Promoted Seed Pathogen Increases Host Grass Resistance Against Insect Herbivory
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Plants host taxonomically and functionally complex communities of microbes. However, ecological studies on plant–microbe interactions rarely address the role of multiple co-occurring plant-associated microbes.
Miika Laihonen +5 more
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Fungal garden making inside bamboos by a non-social fungus-growing beetle. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 In fungus-growing mutualism, it is indispensable for host animals to establish gardens of the symbiotic fungus as rapidly as possible. How to establish fungal gardens has been well-documented in social fungus-farming insects, whereas poorly documented in
Wataru Toki +2 more
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Competition-function tradeoffs in ectomycorrhizal fungi [PDF]
PeerJ, 2016 Background. The extent to which ectomycorrhizal fungi mediate primary production, carbon storage, and nutrient remineralization in terrestrial ecosystems depends upon fungal community composition. However, the factors that govern community composition at
Holly V. Moeller, Kabir G. Peay
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