Bacterial symbiont sharing inMegalomyrmexsocial parasites and their fungus-growing ant hosts

Alkaloid Venom Weaponry of Three Megalomyrmex Thief Ants and the Behavioral Response of Cyphomyrmex costatus Host Ants

(2015) Rachelle M. M. Adams et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Variable interaction specificity and symbiont performance in Panamanian Trachymyrmex and Sericomyrmexfungus-growing ants

(2014) Henrik H De Fine Licht et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2014) PHILIP S. WARD et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Development of a Dual-Index Sequencing Strategy and Curation Pipeline for Analyzing Amplicon Sequence Data on the MiSeq Illumina Sequencing Platform

(2013) James J. Kozich et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Male killing Spiroplasma protects Drosophila melanogaster against two parasitoid wasps

(2013) J Xie et al.   HEREDITY

Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability

(2013) Yi Hu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Convergence of gut microbiomes in myrmecophagous mammals

(2013) Frédéric Delsuc et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Specificity and stability of the Acromyrmex -Pseudonocardia symbiosis

(2013) S. B. Andersen et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Chemically armed mercenary ants protect fungus-farming societies

(2013) R. M. M. Adams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Central American ants of the genus Megalomyrmex Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): six new species and keys to workers and males

(2013) BRENDON E. BOUDINOT et al.   ZOOTAXA

Oligotyping: differentiating between closely related microbial taxa using 16S rRNA gene data

(2013) A. Murat Eren et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Early life treatment with vancomycin propagates Akkermansia muciniphila and reduces diabetes incidence in the NOD mouse

(2012) C. H. F. Hansen et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Fitness consequences of nest infiltration by the mutualist-exploiterMegalomyrmex adamsae

(2012) RACHELLE M. M. ADAMS et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Dynamic Wolbachia prevalence in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants: potential for a nutritional symbiosis

(2012) S. B. ANDERSEN et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Dispersal and gene flow in the rare, parasitic Large Blue butterflyMaculinea arion

(2012) L. V. UGELVIG et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Highly similar microbial communities are shared among related and trophically similar ant species

(2012) KIRK E. ANDERSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evolution and diversity ofArsenophonusendosymbionts in aphids

(2012) Emmanuelle Jousselin et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Do diet and taxonomy influence insect gut bacterial communities?

(2012) D. R. Colman et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Microbiome analysis among bats describes influences of host phylogeny, life history, physiology and geography

(2012) CALEB D. PHILLIPS et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A Veritable Menagerie of Heritable Bacteria from Ants, Butterflies, and Beyond: Broad Molecular Surveys and a Systematic Review

(2012) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PLoS One

Functional diversity within the simple gut microbiota of the honey bee

(2012) P. Engel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Symbiont fidelity and the origin of species in fungus-growing ants

(2012) Natasha J. Mehdiabadi et al.   Nature Communications

Integrative analysis of environmental sequences using MEGAN4

(2011) D. H. Huson et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

An improved Greengenes taxonomy with explicit ranks for ecological and evolutionary analyses of bacteria and archaea

(2011) Daniel McDonald et al.   ISME Journal

MEGA5: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Using Maximum Likelihood, Evolutionary Distance, and Maximum Parsimony Methods

(2011) K. Tamura et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

Socially transmitted gut microbiota protect bumble bees against an intestinal parasite

(2011) H. Koch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid Spread of a Bacterial Symbiont in an Invasive Whitefly Is Driven by Fitness Benefits and Female Bias

(2011) A. G. Himler et al.   SCIENCE

Diet Drives Convergence in Gut Microbiome Functions Across Mammalian Phylogeny and Within Humans

(2011) B. D. Muegge et al.   SCIENCE

Microbiomes of ant castes implicate new microbial roles in the fungus-growing ant Trachymyrmex septentrionalis

(2011) Heather D. Ishak et al.   Scientific Reports

Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade ofEntomoplasmatalesBacteria

(2010) Colin F. Funaro et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Forage collection, substrate preparation, and diet composition in fungus-growing ants

(2010) HENRIK H. DE FINE LICHT et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Interspecific transmission of a male-killing bacterium on an ecological timescale

(2010) Olivier Duron et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Multiple gains and losses of Wolbachia symbionts across a tribe of fungus-growing ants

(2010) C. L. FROST et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A simple and distinctive microbiota associated with honey bees and bumble bees

(2010) VINCENT G. MARTINSON et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

(2010) M. J. Cafaro et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Adaptation via Symbiosis: Recent Spread of a Drosophila Defensive Symbiont

(2010) J. Jaenike et al.   SCIENCE

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

PyNAST: a flexible tool for aligning sequences to a template alignment

(2009) J. G. Caporaso et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

A strain of the bacterial symbiont Regiella insecticola protects aphids against parasitoids

(2009) C. Vorburger et al.   Biology Letters

Multiple introductions of theSpiroplasmabacterial endosymbiont intoDrosophila

(2009) TAMARA S. HASELKORN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bacterial gut symbionts are tightly linked with the evolution of herbivory in ants

(2009) Jacob A. Russell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

(2009) R. Sen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Bacterial Community Variation in Human Body Habitats Across Space and Time

(2009) E. K. Costello et al.   SCIENCE

Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation in the Fungus Gardens of Leaf-Cutter Ants

(2009) A. A. Pinto-Tomas et al.   SCIENCE

Towards a molecular understanding of symbiont function: Identification of a fungal gene for the degradation of xylan in the fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants

(2008) Morten Schiøtt et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Predation and eukaryote cell origins: A coevolutionary perspective

(2008) T. Cavalier-Smith   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOCHEMISTRY & CELL BIOLOGY

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

(2008) T. R. Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

(2008) R. E. Ley et al.   SCIENCE