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Leaf-cutting ant faecal fluid and mandibular gland secretion: effects on microfungi spore germination
(Soc Brasileira Microbiologia, 2008-01-01)
The mandibular gland secretion (MGS) and the faecal fluid (FF) of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel affected the spore germination of selected microfungi isolated from nests of this insect. MGS was more ...
Leaf-cutting ant faecal fluid and mandibular gland secretion: effects on microfungi spore germination
(Soc Brasileira Microbiologia, 2008-01-01)
The mandibular gland secretion (MGS) and the faecal fluid (FF) of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel affected the spore germination of selected microfungi isolated from nests of this insect. MGS was more ...
Leaf-cutting ant faecal fluid and mandibular gland secretion: Effects on microfungi spore germination
(2008-01-01)
The mandibular gland secretion (MGS) and the faecal fluid (FF) of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa Forel affected the spore germination of selected microfungi isolated from nests of this insect. MGS was more ...
Unraveling Trichoderma species in the attine ant environment: description of three new taxa
(2016-05-01)
Fungus-growing “attine” ants forage diverse substrates to grow fungi for food. In addition to the mutualistic fungal partner, the colonies of these insects harbor a rich microbiome composed of bacteria, filamentous fungi ...
How Do Leaf-Cutting Ants Recognize Antagonistic Microbes in Their Fungal Crops?
(2020-05-05)
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 ...
Use of Seeds as Fungus Garden Substrate Changes the Organization of Labor Among Leaf-Cutting Ant Workers
(2015-08-24)
Seeds of different plant species constitute an alternative but also significant substrate that leaf-cutting ants use to cultivate their fungus garden. However, how they are processed inside the nest and if their use implies ...
Gardeners and midden workers in leaf-cutting ants learn to avoid plants unsuitable for the fungus at their worksites
(Academic Press Ltd - Elsevier Science Ltd, 2016-05)
Plant selection in leaf-cutting ants is not solely based on innate or learned preferences by foragers, but also on their previous experience with plants that have harmful effects on their symbiotic fungus. Foragers learn ...
The most relictual fungus-farming ant species cultivates the most recently evolved and highly domesticated fungal symbiont species
(Univ Chicago Press, 2015-05-01)
Fungus-farming (attine) ant agriculture is made up of five known agricultural systems characterized by remarkable symbiont fidelity in which five phylogenetic groups of ants faithfully cultivate five phylogenetic groups ...
Starmerella aceti f.a., sp nova, an ascomycetous yeast species isolated from fungus garden of the leafcutter ant Acromyrmex balzani
(Soc General Microbiology, 2014-04-01)
A novel yeast-species was recovered from the fungus garden of the leaf-cutting ant Acromyrmex balzani (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The growth of the novel yeast species is limited by its ability to metabolize only a few ...