TY  - JOUR
AU  - Seipke, R.F.
AU  - Barke, J.
AU  - Ruiz-Gonzalez, M.X.
AU  - Orivel, J.
AU  - Yu, D.W.
AU  - Hutchings, M.I.
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria
T2  - Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek Int. J. Gen. Mol. Microbiol.
JO  - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology
SP  - 443
EP  - 447
VL  - 101
IS  - 2
KW  - Allomerus ants
KW  - Amycolatopsis
KW  - Ant-bacteria symbioses
KW  - Fungus-growing ants
KW  - Insect fungiculture
KW  - Streptomyces
N2  - 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.
SN  - 00036072 (Issn)
UR  - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84858001180&partnerID=40&md5=19db66f4d062893ad0c25b3ab5046bd1
N1  - 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
ID  - Seipke_etal2012
ER  -