%0 Journal Article
%T Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria
%A Seipke, R.F.
%A Barke, J.
%A Ruiz-Gonzalez, M.X.
%A Orivel, J.
%A Yu, D.W.
%A Hutchings, M.I.
%J Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology
%D 2012
%V 101
%N 2
%@ 00036072 (Issn)
%F Seipke_etal2012
%O 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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%X 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.
%K Allomerus ants
%K Amycolatopsis
%K Ant-bacteria symbioses
%K Fungus-growing ants
%K Insect fungiculture
%K Streptomyces
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