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Mandibles of Leaf-Cutting Ants: Morphology Related to Food Preference
Sociobiology, 2016 Feed adaptation is crucial for the ecological success of animals, which explore specific or varied resources according to the suitability of the selected feature.
Roberto da Silva Camargo +3 more
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How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Leaf-cutting ants employ diverse behavioral strategies for promoting the growth of fungal cultivars in a structure known as fungus garden. As a nutritionally rich resource for the ants, the fungal crop is threatened by microbial antagonists and pathogens.
Aryel C. Goes +5 more
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How to coexist with fire ants: The roles of behaviour and cuticular compounds [PDF]
, 2013 tBecause territoriality is energetically costly, territorial animals frequently respond less aggressively toneighbours than to strangers, a reaction known as the “dear enemy phenomenon” (DEP).
Céréghino, Régis +5 more
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BMC Biology, 2010 Background Leaf-cutting (attine) ants use their own fecal material to manure fungus gardens, which consist of leaf material overgrown by hyphal threads of the basidiomycete fungus Leucocoprinus gongylophorus that lives in symbiosis with the ants ...
Boomsma Jacobus J +3 more
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A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus [PDF]
, 2010 BACKGROUND: Attine ants live in an intensely studied tripartite mutualism with the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which provides food to the ants, and with antibiotic-producing actinomycete bacteria.
Bibb, Mervyn J. +29 more
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Ecosphere, 2013 Endophytic fungi live symbiotically in the tissues of plants. Although a large amount of evidence suggests a mutualistic role for vertically transmitted endophytic fungi in agronomic grasses, the role of horizontally transmitted endophytic fungi as ...
Kyle E. Coblentz, Sunshine A. Van Bael
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Pathogens, 2023 The maintenance of the symbiosis between leaf-cutting ants and their mutualistic fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus Singer (Moller) is vital for the survival of both species.
Thais Berçot Pontes Teodoro +6 more
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The Effect of nest Size and Species Identity on Plant Selection in Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants
Sociobiology, 2018 Leaf-cutting ants are key organisms because their role as primary consumers and potential agricultural pests. However, their foraging ecology was mostly studied as response of extrinsic factors such as climate and plant species traits.
Laura Elizabeth Jofre +3 more
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, 2021 Supplementary material containing the raw data, tables, scripts, and graphs from the study "Leaf-cutting ants’ CTmax and VTmax changes with size, heating rates, hydration level, and humidity"
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eLife, 2021 The symbiotic partnership between leaf-cutting ants and fungal cultivars processes plant biomass via ant fecal fluid mixed with chewed plant substrate before fungal degradation.
Morten Schiøtt, Jacobus J Boomsma
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