Shared Escovopsis parasites between leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting ants in the higher attine fungus-growing ant symbiosis [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2015 Fungus-gardening (attine) ants grow fungus for food in protected gardens, which contain beneficial, auxiliary microbes, but also microbes harmful to gardens.
Lucas A. Meirelles +5 more
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Spatio-temporal permanence and plasticity of foraging trails in young and mature leaf-cutting ant colonies (Atta spp.) [PDF]
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2005 The distribution and formation of foraging trails have largely been neglected as factors explaining harvesting patterns of leaf-cutting ants.We applied fractal analysis, circular, and conventional statistics to published and newly recorded trailmaps of ...
Amthor, A. M. +22 more
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Fungal-Fungal Interactions in Leaf-Cutting Ant Agriculture
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2011 Many organisms participate in symbiotic relationships with other organisms, yet studies of symbioses typically have focused on the reciprocal costs and benefits within a particular host-symbiont pair.
Sunshine A. Van Bael +2 more
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Adaptive social immunity in leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
Biology Letters, 2009 Social insects have evolved a suite of sophisticated defences against parasites. In addition to the individual physiological immune response, social insects also express ‘social immunity’ consisting of group-level defences and behaviours that include allogrooming.
Walker, Tom N., Hughes, William O. H.
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Leucoagaricus gongylophorus uses leaf-cutting ants to vector proteolytic enzymes towards new plant substrate [PDF]
, 2014 The mutualism between leaf-cutting ants and their fungal symbionts revolves around processing and inoculation of fresh leaf pulp in underground fungus gardens, mediated by ant fecal fluid deposited on the newly added plant substrate.
Boomsma, Jacobus Jan +5 more
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Learning through the waste: olfactory cues from the colony refuse influence plant preferences in foraging leaf-cutting ants [PDF]
, 2016 Leaf-cutting ants learn to avoid plants initially harvested if they proved to be harmful for their symbiotic fungus once incorporated into the nest.
Arenas, Andres, Roces, Flavio
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Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND : The obligate mutualism between fungus-growing ants and microbial symbionts offers excellent opportunities to study the specificity and stability of multi-species interactions.
Boomsma, Jacobus J. +3 more
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EntomoBrasilis, 2021 Khaya grandifoliola C. DC. (Meliaceae), known as African mahogany, is used in the establishment of commercial plantations for high-value timber production. This work aims to report the first occurrence of the genus Atta in a commercial plantation of this
Rodolfo Molinário de Souza +2 more
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Metabolism And The Rise Of Fungus Cultivation By Ants [PDF]
, 2014 Most ant colonies are comprised of workers that cooperate to harvest resources and feed developing larvae. Around 50 million years ago (MYA), ants of the attine lineage adopted an alternative strategy, harvesting resources used as compost to produce ...
Kaspari, Michael +5 more
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Susceptibility of Atta sexdens worker ants treated with the immunosuppressant Sandimmun Neoral to Metarhizium anisopliae [PDF]
Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira, 2017 : The objective of this work was to evaluate if the immunosuppressant Sandimmun Neoral enhances the activity of Metarhizium anisopliae against the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens.
Aline Silvestre Pereira Dornelas +7 more
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