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Leafcutter Ant Farmers Prevent Loss of Edible Symbiotic Structures by Maintaining Allelic Diversity in Their Multinucleate Fungal Crop.

Molecular ecology - 1 Jul 2026

Rødsgaard-Jørgensen Asta, Leal-Dutra Caio, Kokkoris Vasilis, Shik Jonathan Z

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Leafcutter ants farm the domesticated fungal cultivar Leucoagaricus gongylophorus in subterranean nests containing up to hundreds of discrete garden chambers. The fungal cultivar produces edible symbiotic structures called gongylidia (nutritious swollen hyphal cells consumed by the ants) and expresses a form of polyploidy (multiple, genetically distinct nuclei per fungal cellular compartment). Yet, the fungus is...

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PMID: 42400366
DOI: 10.1111/mec.70458
PMCID: PMC13332446

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