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Microfungal "weeds" in the leafcutter ant symbiosis.

Microbial ecology - 1 Nov 2008

Rodrigues A, Bacci M, Mueller U G, Ortiz A, Pagnocca F C

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Leafcutter ants (Formicidae: tribe Attini) are well-known insects that cultivate basidiomycete fungi (Agaricales: Lepiotaceae) as their principal food. Fungus gardens are monocultures of a single cultivar strain, but they also harbor a diverse assemblage of additional microbes with largely unknown roles in the symbiosis. Cultivar-attacking microfungi in the genus Escovopsis are specialized parasites found only in...

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PMID: 18369523
DOI: 10.1007/s00248-008-9380-0

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