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Fungus-Growing Ants: Models for the Integrative Analysis of Cognition and Brain Evolution [PDF]

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020
Isabella B. Muratore, James F. A. Traniello, James F. A. Traniello   +2 more
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Chemical warfare between fungus-growing ants and their pathogens.

Curr Opin Chem Biol, 2020
Batey SFD, Greco C, Hutchings MI, Wilkinson B.   +3 more
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Ant Diversity and Stratification in an Amazonian Rainforest [PDF]

Ecology and Evolution
This study focuses on species occupying the three strata of an Amazonian rainforest: the ground and leaf litter, the understorey and the canopy. We employed only two sampling techniques: Winkler extraction for ground‐dwelling ants and direct observations
Jacques H. C. Delabie, Alain Dejean, Maurice Leponce, John T. Longino, Jérôme Orivel, Axel Touchard, Arthur Compin   +6 more
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Chemical Gradients of Plant Substrates in an Atta texana Fungus Garden

mSystems, 2021
The study of complex ecosystems requires an understanding of the chemical processes involving molecules from several sources. Some of the molecules present in fungus-growing ants’ symbiotic system originate from plants.
Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez, Sara P. Puckett, Kathleen E. Kyle, Daniel Petras, Ricardo da Silva, Louis-Félix Nothias, Madeleine Ernst, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Anupriya Tripathi, Mingxun Wang, Marcy J. Balunas, Jonathan L. Klassen, Pieter C. Dorrestein   +12 more
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Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria. [PDF]

Proc Biol Sci, 2011
Cafaro MJ, Poulsen M, Little AE, Price SL, Gerardo NM, Wong B, Stuart AE, Larget B, Abbot P, Currie CR.   +9 more
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Dump size and distance from the nest define the investment in waste management in Sericomyrmex mayri (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini)

Ecología Austral, 2020
The farming system practiced by non-leaf-cutting ants Sericomyrmex mayri (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) involves a mutualistic interaction with symbiotic fungi.
Marília R. Bitar, Yasmine Antonini, Vitor L. Lopes, Maykon P. Cristiano, Aline U. N. Lima, Fernanda V. Costa   +5 more
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Karyotype Diversity, Mode, and Tempo of the Chromosomal Evolution of Attina (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini): Is There an Upper Limit to Chromosome Number?

Insects, 2021
Ants are an important insect group that exhibits considerable diversity in chromosome numbers. Some species show only one chromosome, as in the males of the Australian bulldog ant Myrmecia croslandi, while some have as many as 60 chromosomes, as in the ...
Danon Clemes Cardoso, Maykon Passos Cristiano   +1 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, Francisco Serna, Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo, John Lattke, Christian Rabeling   +4 more
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Interspecific Eavesdropping on Ant Chemical Communication

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Chemical communication is a fundamental, highly complex component of social insect societies. Ants in particular employ a remarkable diversity of chemical signals to maintain social cohesion among nestmates, gain essential resources through coordinated ...
Rachelle M. M. Adams, Rachelle M. M. Adams, Rachel L. Wells, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Christopher J. Frost, Eduardo G. P. Fox   +6 more
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Symbiont interactions in a tripartite mutualism: exploring the presence and impact of antagonism between two fungus-growing ant mutualists. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2010
Mutualistic associations are shaped by the interplay of cooperation and conflict among the partners involved, and it is becoming increasingly clear that within many mutualisms multiple partners simultaneously engage in beneficial interactions ...
Michael Poulsen, Cameron R Currie
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