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Recent Advances in Ant‐Derived Lipids as Emerging Functional Ingredients for Food, Nutraceutical, and Sustainable Bioproduct Applications: A Comprehensive Review

Journal of Food Biochemistry, Volume 2026, Issue 1, 2026.
Ant lipids provide a viable resource for attaining a sustainable future, due to their low pollution output and their abundance in fatty acids, phospholipids, sterols, and triglycerides. They are employed across multiple industries, including cosmetics, food, and medicines, due to their extensive health benefits, which encompass anticancer, antidiabetic,
Anushka Pallavi, Pinku Chandra Nath, Vinay Kumar Pandey, Shikha Thakur, Rahul Singh, Dipendra Kumar Mahato   +5 more
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The molecular phylogenetics of Trachymyrmex Forel ants and their fungal cultivars provide insights into the origin and coevolutionary history of ‘higher‐attine’ ant agriculture

Systematic Entomology, Volume 44, Issue 4, Page 939-956, October 2019., 2019
Fungus‐farming ants cultivate fungus gardens for food. ‘Higher’ fungus‐farming ants, including the well‐known leaf‐cutting ants, cultivate domesticated cultivars that are clearly modified for life with ants. Here we show that the higher fungus‐farming ant genus Trachymyrmex consists of three different groups, one of which is the sister group of leaf ...
Scott E. Solomon, Christian Rabeling, Jeffrey Sosa‐Calvo, Cauê T. Lopes, André Rodrigues, Heraldo L. Vasconcelos, Maurício Bacci Jr, Ulrich G. Mueller, Ted R. Schultz   +8 more
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Potential of alternative control of leaf‐cutting ants using essential oils: A systematic review

Agricultural and Forest Entomology, Volume 27, Issue 4, Page 497-511, November 2025.
Abstract Leaf‐cutting ants (LCAs) are abundant and cause considerable damage to agricultural and forest crops in the Neotropical region and are commonly controlled using sulfluramid‐based ant baits. However, this active ingredient is a precursor of perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS), a persistent, human‐made pollutant that poses serious environmental
Heloisa S. S. Pinheiro, Crislaine C. Calazans, Virginia E. Masiulionis, Valfran S. Andrade, Tainara da S. Carvalho, Itamara Bomfim Gois, Genésio T. Ribeiro, Arie F. Blank, Ana P. A. Araújo, Leandro Bacci   +9 more
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Phylogenomic species delimitation and host‐symbiont coevolution in the fungus‐farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve a recent radiation

Systematic Entomology, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 523-542, July 2017., 2017
Abstract Ants in the Neotropical genus Sericomyrmex Mayr cultivate fungi for food. Both ants and fungi are obligate, coevolved symbionts. The taxonomy of Sericomyrmex is problematic because the morphology of the worker caste is generally homogeneous across all of the species within the genus, species limits are vague, and the relationships between them
ANA JEŠOVNIK, JEFFREY SOSA‐CALVO, MICHAEL W. LLOYD, MICHAEL G. BRANSTETTER, FERNANDO FERNÁNDEZ, TED R. SCHULTZ   +5 more
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From Plants to the Fungus Garden: Physical, Chemical, and Behavioral Factors Influencing Foraging in Leaf-Cutting Ants [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
Leaf-cutting ants selectively forage plant material to cultivate their symbiotic fungus, Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which constitutes the primary food source for their colonies.
R.S. CAMARGO, L.C FORTI, C.A.O. MATOS, F.A.G. GUILHERME, N.C. OLIVEIRA, A.A. MOREIRA, J.E. SERRÃO, M.A. CASTELLANI, J.C. ZANUNCIO, J.P. PORTUGAL, T.R. MELO SOUZA, B.S. COELHO   +11 more
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Ant's Nest as a microenvironment: Distinct Mucoromycota (Fungi) community of the red wood ants' (Formica polyctena) mounds

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 14, Issue 10, October 2024.
Many social insect species build nests, which strongly differ from the surrounding environment and are often occupied by specific organismal communities. We compared the Mucoromycota (Fungi) community of red wood ant's (Formica polyctena) mounds with the community of the surrounding forest litter. We show that the fungal community of mounds is specific
Igor Siedlecki, Michał Kochanowski, Julia Pawłowska, Gabriela Reszotnik, Alicja Okrasińska, Marta Wrzosek   +5 more
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Starch metabolism in Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the symbiotic fungus of leaf-cutting ants

, 2006
Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the symbiotic fungus of the leaf-cutting ants, degrades starch, this degradation being supposed to occur in the plant material which leafcutters forage to the nests, generating most of the glucose which the ants utilize for ...
Silva, A., Bacci, M., Bueno, O. C., Pagnocca, F. C., Hebling, M. J. A.   +4 more
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Hongos asociados con dos poblaciones de Acromyrmex lobicornis (Formicidae) de San Luis, Argentina

Boletín de la Sociedad Argentina de Botánica, 2013
Los géneros Atta y Acromyrmex comprenden a las hormigas cortadoras o podadoras de hojas de la tribu Attini, único grupo de hormigas que presenta una dependencia obligada con simbiontes fúngicos como fuente de alimento.
Mónica A. Lugo, Esteban M. Crespo, Matías  Cafaro, Laura  Jofre   +3 more
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Low variation in ribosomal DNA and internal transcribed spacers of the symbiotic fungi of leaf-cutting ants (Attini: Formicidae)

Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research, 2004
Leaf-cutting ants of the genera Atta and Acromyrmex (tribe Attini) are symbiotic with basidiomycete fungi of the genus Leucoagaricus (tribe Leucocoprineae), which they cultivate on vegetable matter inside their nests.
Silva-Pinhati A.C.O., Bacci Jr. M., Hinkle G., Sogin M.L., Pagnocca F.C., Martins V.G., Bueno O.C., Hebling M.J.A.   +7 more
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Escovopsioides as a fungal antagonist of the fungus cultivated by leafcutter ants

BMC Microbiology, 2018
Background Fungus gardens of fungus-growing (attine) ants harbor complex microbiomes in addition to the mutualistic fungus they cultivate for food. Fungi in the genus Escovopsioides were recently described as members of this microbiome but their role in ...
Julio Flavio Osti, Andre Rodrigues
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