Climate Change Influences Basidiome Emergence of Leaf-Cutting Ant Cultivars [PDF]
Journal of Fungi, 2021 Maintaining symbiosis homeostasis is essential for mutualistic partners. Leaf-cutting ants evolved a long-term symbiotic mutualism with fungal cultivars for nourishment while using vertical asexual transmission across generations.
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Contamination and mortality of leaf-cutting ant workers by the quinone inside inhibitor fungicide after social interactions [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2023 Leaf-cutting ants of the genera Atta and Acromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are the most important pests in forest and agricultural plantations and livestock. Toxic baits are the main method to manage these insects.
Tamires Scudillio +6 more
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Parasitism, sexual dimorphism and effect of host size on Apocephalus attophilus offspring, a parasitoid of the leaf-cutting ant Atta bisphaerica. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 Atta bisphaerica (Forel) is a leaf-cutting ant that specializes on grass and causes productivity losses in sugar cane fields and pastures. Three phorid species, Apocephalus attophilus (Borgmeier), Myrmosicarius grandicornis (Borgmeier) and ...
Cliver Fernandes Farder-Gomes +5 more
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Sperm mixing in the polyandrous leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex echinatior [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 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 +3 more
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The dynamics of plant cell-wall polysaccharide decomposition in leaf-cutting ant fungus gardens. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 The degradation of live plant biomass in fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants is poorly characterised but fundamental for understanding the mutual advantages and efficiency of this obligate nutritional symbiosis.
Isabel E Moller +4 more
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Generation of Nutrients and Detoxification: Possible Roles of Yeasts in Leaf-Cutting Ant Nests [PDF]
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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Sequential Defense Strategies: From Ant Recruitment to Leaf Toughness [PDF]
PlantsPlants express many types of defenses in response to herbivory damage. These defenses can be displayed as a sequence or they can overlap, increasing efficiency in protection.
Danilo F. B. dos Santos +3 more
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An Old World leaf‐cutting, fungus‐growing ant: A case of convergent evolution
Ecology and Evolution, 2023 The African myrmicine ant Crematogaster clariventris is a territorially dominant arboreal species that constructs very hard carton nests. Noting that workers cut off leaves from different plant species while building or repairing their nests, we asked ...
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Insects, 2022 Atta and Acromyrmex are the main genera of leaf-cutting ants present in North and South America, causing extensive damage to agroforestry. Control of the ants requires high handling costs with few effective methods available to decrease the losses.
Sean Araújo +10 more
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Remote Sensing, 2019 Leaf-cutting ants of the genus Atta are an important insect pest in forest plantations in many countries of South America. The objective of this work was to evaluate the potential for using Landsat-8 images, with medium spatial resolution and distributed
Isabel Carolina de Lima Santos +6 more
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