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A domesticated fungal cultivar recycles its cytoplasmic contents as nutritional rewards for its leafcutter ant farmers

2022-03-03

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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Leafcutter ants farm a fungal cultivar ( Leucoagaricus gongylophorus ) that converts inedible vegetation into food that sustains colonies with up to millions of workers. Analogous to edible fruits of crops domesticated by humans, L. gongylophorus has evolved specialized nutritional rewards—swollen hyphal cells called gongylidia that package metabolites ingested by ant farmers. Yet, little is k...

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Literature Corpus work: cd24967d-cc09-5fe8-84ff-be97308b21e9
DOI: 10.1101/2022.03.03.482823

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