The Longevity of Colonies of Fungus-Growing Termites and the Stability of the Symbiosis

Termite mound architecture regulates nest temperature and correlates with species identities of symbiotic fungi

(2019) Risto Vesala et al.   PeerJ

Mutation-rate plasticity and the germline of unicellular organisms

(2019) Duur K. Aanen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Public goods and cheating in microbes

(2019) Parker Smith et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Somatic maintenance impacts the evolution of mutation rate

(2019) Andrii Rozhok et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Maintenance of High Genome Integrity over Vegetative Growth in the Fairy-Ring Mushroom Marasmius oreades

(2019) Markus Hiltunen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Local hypoxia generated by live burial is effective in weed control within termite fungus farms

(2018) L. Katariya et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Stability criteria for complex microbial communities

(2018) Stacey Butler et al.   Nature Communications

Can interaction specificity in the fungus-farming termite symbiosis be explained by nutritional requirements of the fungal crop?

(2018) Rafael R. da Costa et al.   Fungal Ecology

Clonal evolution and genome stability in a 2500-year-old fungal individual

(2018) James B. Anderson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Fungus-Farming Termites Selectively Bury Weedy Fungi that Smell Different from Crop Fungi

(2017) Lakshya Katariya et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Adaptation to public goods cheats in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

(2017) Siobhán O'Brien et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Experimental evolution reveals that high relatedness protects multicellular cooperation from cheaters

(2016) Eric Bastiaans et al.   Nature Communications

Oligocene Termite Nests with In Situ Fungus Gardens from the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania, Support a Paleogene African Origin for Insect Agriculture

(2016) Eric M. Roberts et al.   PLoS One

Towards an integrated understanding of the consequences of fungus domestication on the fungus-growing termite gut microbiota

(2015) Michael Poulsen   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The influence of termites on soil sheeting properties varies depending on the materials on which they feed

(2015) Pascal Jouquet et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Experimental demonstration of the benefits of somatic fusion and the consequences for allorecognition

(2015) Eric Bastiaans et al.   EVOLUTION

Investigation of Age Polyethism in Food Processing of the Fungus-Growing Termite Odontotermes formosanus (Blattodea: Termitidae) Using a Laboratory Artificial Rearing System

(2015) H. Li et al.   JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY

Extraordinary Genetic Diversity in a Wood Decay Mushroom

(2015) Maria A. Baranova et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The age of large termite mounds—radiocarbon dating of Macrotermes falciger mounds of the Miombo woodland of Katanga, DR Congo

(2015) Hans Erens et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The Coexistence of Hosts with Different Abilities to Discriminate against Cheater Partners: An Evolutionary Game-Theory Approach

(2014) Brian S. Steidinger et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The scope for nuclear selection within Termitomyces fungi associated with fungus-growing termites is limited

(2014) Tania Nobre et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genomewide mutation dynamic within a long-lived individual of Armillaria gallica

(2014) James B. Anderson et al.   MYCOLOGIA

How a long-lived fungus keeps mutations in check

(2014) D. K. Aanen   SCIENCE

Discriminative host sanctions in a fig–wasp mutualism

(2013) Rui-Wu Wang et al.   ECOLOGY

Diversity of Termitomyces Associated with Fungus-Farming Termites Assessed by Cultural and Culture-Independent Methods

(2013) Huxley M. Makonde et al.   PLoS One

Experimental Evolution Reveals Genome-Wide Spectrum and Dynamics of Mutations in the Rice Blast Fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae

(2013) Junhyun Jeon et al.   PLoS One

Taller plants have lower rates of molecular evolution

(2013) Robert Lanfear et al.   Nature Communications

The human microbiome: ecosystem resilience and health

(2012) David A Relman   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Rapid antagonistic coevolution between strains of the social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum

(2012) B. Hollis   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Kin Selection–Mutation Balance: A Model for the Origin, Maintenance, and Consequences of Social Cheating

(2011) J. David Van Dyken et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

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

The Lower Bound to the Evolution of Mutation Rates

(2011) Michael Lynch   Genome Biology and Evolution

Environmental and biological determinants of Termitomyces species seasonal fructification in central and southern Côte d’Ivoire

(2011) N. A. Koné et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

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

(2011) Anna A. Visser et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Farming termites determine the genetic population structure of Termitomyces fungal symbionts

(2011) TÂNIA NOBRE et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Stability of a three-species symbiosis model with delays

(2011) Junhai Ma et al.   NONLINEAR DYNAMICS

Reciprocal Rewards Stabilize Cooperation in the Mycorrhizal Symbiosis

(2011) E. T. Kiers et al.   SCIENCE

Peto's Paradox: evolution's prescription for cancer prevention

(2011) Aleah F. Caulin et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The evolution of mutualism

(2010) E. G. LEIGH Jr   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A complex journey: transmission of microbial symbionts

(2010) Monika Bright et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Evolution of the mutation rate

(2010) Michael Lynch   TRENDS IN GENETICS

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

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

Vertical transmission as the key to the colonization of Madagascar by fungus-growing termites?

(2009) T. Nobre et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High Symbiont Relatedness Stabilizes Mutualistic Cooperation in Fungus-Growing Termites

(2009) D. K. Aanen et al.   SCIENCE

Queen Succession Through Asexual Reproduction in Termites

(2009) K. Matsuura et al.   SCIENCE

Preferential allocation to beneficial symbiont with spatial structure maintains mycorrhizal mutualism

(2008) James D. Bever et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS