SharedEscovopsisparasites between leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting ants in the higher attine fungus-growing ant symbiosis

The Most Relictual Fungus-Farming Ant Species Cultivates the Most Recently Evolved and Highly Domesticated Fungal Symbiont Species

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Escovopsis trichodermoides sp. nov., isolated from a nest of the lower attine ant Mycocepurus goeldii

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New Light on the Systematics of Fungi Associated with Attine Ant Gardens and the Description of Escovopsis kreiselii sp. nov.

(2015) Lucas A. Meirelles et al.   PLoS One

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

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

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Instability of novel ant-fungal associations constrains horizontal exchange of fungal symbionts

(2013) Jon N. Seal et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Co-evolutionary patterns and diversification of ant-fungus associations in the asexual fungus-farming antMycocepurus smithiiin Panama

(2013) K. Kellner et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Cyatta abscondita: Taxonomy, Evolution, and Natural History of a New Fungus-Farming Ant Genus from Brazil

(2013) Jeffrey Sosa-Calvo et al.   PLoS One

Yet More “Weeds” in the Garden: Fungal Novelties from Nests of Leaf-Cutting Ants

(2013) Juliana O. Augustin et al.   PLoS One

BroadEscovopsis-inhibition activity ofPseudonocardiaassociated withTrachymyrmexants

(2013) Lucas A. Meirelles et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

Laccase detoxification mediates the nutritional alliance between leaf-cutting ants and fungus-garden symbionts

(2012) H. H. De Fine Licht et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region as a universal DNA barcode marker for Fungi

(2012) C. L. Schoch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

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

Preliminary In Vitro Insights into the Use of Natural Fungal Pathogens of Leaf-cutting Ants as Biocontrol Agents

(2011) Patricia Folgarait et al.   CURRENT MICROBIOLOGY

Ecology of microfungal communities in gardens of fungus-growing ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a year-long survey of three species of attine ants in Central Texas

(2011) Andre Rodrigues et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Frontier mutualism: coevolutionary patterns at the northern range limit of the leaf-cutter ant-fungus symbiosis

(2011) U. G. Mueller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Presence of Multiparasite Infections Within Individual Colonies of Leaf-Cutter Ants

(2010) S. J. Taerum et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

How Many Bootstrap Replicates Are Necessary?

(2010) Nicholas D. Pattengale et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY

Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens

(2010) Ulrich G. Mueller et al.   PLoS One

Free-living fungal symbionts (Lepiotaceae) of fungus-growing ants (Attini: Formicidae)

(2009) Tanya L. Vo et al.   MYCOLOGIA

Microfungal “Weeds” in the Leafcutter Ant Symbiosis

(2008) A. Rodrigues et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

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