Exploring the Potential for Actinobacteria as Defensive Symbionts in Fungus-Growing Termites

Pseudoxylaria as stowaway of the fungus-growing termite nest: Interaction asymmetry between Pseudoxylaria, Termitomyces and free-living relatives

(2011) Anna A. Visser et al.   Fungal Ecology

Genome Sequence of Streptomyces griseus Strain XylebKG-1, an Ambrosia Beetle-Associated Actinomycete

(2011) K. J. Grubbs et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Presence and Diversity of Streptomyces in Dendroctonus and Sympatric Bark Beetle Galleries Across North America

(2011) Jiri Hulcr et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

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

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

Dating the fungus-growing termites’ mutualism shows a mixture between ancient codiversification and recent symbiont dispersal across divergent hosts

(2011) T. NOBRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

PRODUCTION OF ANTIBIOTIC SUBSTANCES BY ACTINOMYCETES*†

(2010) Selman A. Waksman et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Symbiotic streptomycetes provide antibiotic combination prophylaxis for wasp offspring

(2010) Johannes Kroiss et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

Symbiont Interactions in a Tripartite Mutualism: Exploring the Presence and Impact of Antagonism between Two Fungus-Growing Ant Mutualists

(2010) Michael Poulsen 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

Levels of specificity ofXylariaspecies associated with fungus-growing termites: a phylogenetic approach

(2009) A. A. VISSER et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogenetic status of Xylaria subgenus Pseudoxylaria among taxa of the subfamily Xylarioideae (Xylariaceae) and phylogeny of the taxa involved in the subfamily

(2009) Huei-Mei Hsieh et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Molecular diversity and host specificity of termite-associated Xylaria

(2009) Herbert J. Guedegbe et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Dentigerumycin: a bacterial mediator of an ant-fungus symbiosis

(2009) Dong-Chan Oh et al.   Nature Chemical Biology

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

Rethinking crop-disease management in fungus-growing ants

(2009) J. J. Boomsma et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2009) D. K. Aanen et al.   SCIENCE

Actinobacteria as mutualists: general healthcare for insects?

(2009) Martin Kaltenpoth   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

(2009) Michael Poulsen et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Bacterial Protection of Beetle-Fungus Mutualism

(2008) J. J. Scott et al.   SCIENCE