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ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 101, Issue 2, Pages 443-447Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-011-9621-y
Keywords
Fungus-growing ants; Allomerus ants; Insect fungiculture; Ant-bacteria symbioses; Streptomyces; Amycolatopsis
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- University of East Anglia (UEA)
- Medical Research Council [G0801721]
- Research Councils UK
- Yunnan provincial government [20080A001]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [0902281081]
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-06-JCJC-01909-01]
- Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversite [AAP-IN-2009-050]
- Medical Research Council [G0801721] Funding Source: researchfish
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J01074X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- MRC [G0801721] Funding Source: UKRI
- NERC [NE/J01074X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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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.
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