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Specificity of the mutualistic association between actinomycete bacteria and two sympatric species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants.

Molecular ecology - 1 Oct 2005

Poulsen M, Cafaro M, Boomsma J J, Currie C R

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Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants maintain two highly specialized, vertically transmitted mutualistic ectosymbionts: basidiomycete fungi that are cultivated for food in underground gardens and actinomycete Pseudonocardia bacteria that are reared on the cuticle to produce antibiotics that suppress the growth of Escovopsis parasites of the fungus garden. Mutualism stability has been hypothesized to benefit from genetic...

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PMID: 16156826
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2005.02695.x

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