Journal
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY RESOURCES
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 1391-1394Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02684.x
Keywords
Attini; fungus-growing ant; Leucocoprinus gongylophorus; mutualism; symbiosis
Funding
- NSF [DEB-0110073, DEB0639879]
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We developed 23 polymorphic microsatellite markers for the symbiotic fungi cultivated by leaf cutter ants, then assessed allelic variation in North American leafcutter-fungus populations (Mexico, Cuba, USA). Polyploidy was indicated by 21 of the 23 loci, consistent with the multinucleate nature of leafcutter fungi. Microsatellite fingerprinting can now assess fungal genetic variation within leafcutter nests to test for monoculture of the cultivated fungi.
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