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Non-specific association between filamentous bacteria and fungus-growing ants.
Die Naturwissenschaften - 1 Oct 2007
Kost Christian, Lakatos Tanja, Böttcher Ingo, Arendholz Wolf-Rüdiger, Redenbach Matthias, Wirth Rainer
Abstract excerpt
Fungus-growing ants and their fungal cultivar form a highly evolved mutualism that is negatively affected by the specialized parasitic fungus Escovopsis. Filamentous Pseudonocardia bacteria occurring on the cuticle of attine ants have been proposed to form a mutualistic interaction with these ants in which they are vertically transmitted (i.e. from parent to offspring colonies). Given a strictly vertical...
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