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Seipke, R.F.; Barke, J.; Ruiz-Gonzalez, M.X.; Orivel, J.; Yu, D.W.; Hutchings, M.I. |
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Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria |
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2012 |
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Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology |
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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek Int. J. Gen. Mol. Microbiol. |
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101 |
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2 |
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443-447 |
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Allomerus ants; Amycolatopsis; Ant-bacteria symbioses; Fungus-growing ants; Insect fungiculture; Streptomyces |
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Fungus-growing attine ants use natural-product antibiotics produced by mutualist actinobacteria as 'weedkillers' in their fungal gardens. Here we report for the first time that fungus-growing Allomerus ants, which lie outside the tribe Attini, are associated with antifungal-producing actinobacteria, which offer them protection against non-cultivar fungi isolated from their ant-plants. © 2011 Springer Science+Business Media B.V. |
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State Key Laboratory of Genetic Resources and Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan 650223, China |
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Export Date: 21 March 2012; Source: Scopus; Coden: Aljma; doi: 10.1007/s10482-011-9621-y; Language of Original Document: English; Correspondence Address: Hutchings, M.I.; School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom; email: m.hutchings@uea.ac.uk |
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