PT Journal
AU Seipke, R
   Barke, J
   Ruiz-Gonzalez, M
   Orivel, J
   Yu, D
   Hutchings, M
TI Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria
SO Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology
JI Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek Int. J. Gen. Mol. Microbiol.
PY 2012
BP 443
EP 447
VL 101
IS 2
DE Allomerus ants; Amycolatopsis; Ant-bacteria symbioses; Fungus-growing ants; Insect fungiculture; Streptomyces
AB 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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