A mutualistic microbiome: How do fungus-growing ants select their antibiotic-producing bacteria?

We recently published a paper titled “A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus” showing that attine ants use multidrug therapy to maintain their fungal cultivars. This paper tested two theories that have been put forward to ex...

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Main Authors: Barke, Jörg, Seipke, Ryan F, Yu, Douglas W, Hutchings, Matthew I
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Landes Bioscience 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3073267/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21509175
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4161/cib.4.1.13552
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