Dramatic Differences in Gut Bacterial Densities Correlate with Diet and Habitat in Rainforest Ants

By their own devices: invasive Argentine ants have shifted diet without clear aid from symbiotic microbes

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The genome of Rhizobiales bacteria in predatory ants reveals urease gene functions but no genes for nitrogen fixation

(2016) Minna-Maria Neuvonen et al.   Scientific Reports

Reagent and laboratory contamination can critically impact sequence-based microbiome analyses

(2014) Susannah J Salter et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Nesting habits shape feeding preferences and predatory behavior in an ant genus

(2014) Alain Dejean et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

DNA extraction protocols cause differences in 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing efficiency but not in community profile composition or structure

(2014) Benjamin E. R. Rubin et al.   MicrobiologyOpen

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

Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

(2013) Jon G. Sanders et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

UPARSE: highly accurate OTU sequences from microbial amplicon reads

(2013) Robert C Edgar   NATURE METHODS

Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences

(2013) Margaret McFall-Ngai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Establishment of Characteristic Gut Bacteria during Development of the Honeybee Worker

(2012) Vincent G. Martinson et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ultra-high-throughput microbial community analysis on the Illumina HiSeq and MiSeq platforms

(2012) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

Plant-ants use symbiotic fungi as a food source: new insight into the nutritional ecology of ant-plant interactions

(2012) R. Blatrix et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ant workers die young and colonies collapse when fed a high-protein diet

(2012) A. Dussutour et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Bacterial Diversity in Solenopsis invicta and Solenopsis geminata Ant Colonies Characterized by 16S amplicon 454 Pyrosequencing

(2011) Heather D. Ishak et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Microbiology by numbers

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Chemical basis of the synergism and antagonism in microbial communities in the nests of leaf-cutting ants

(2011) Ilka Schoenian et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

(2011) B. D. Muegge et al.   SCIENCE

Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade ofEntomoplasmatalesBacteria

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

Experimental factors affecting PCR-based estimates of microbial species richness and evenness

(2010) Anna Engelbrektson et al.   ISME Journal

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

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Bacterial Associates of Arboreal Ants and Their Putative Functions in an Obligate Ant-Plant Mutualism

(2009) S. Eilmus et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Quenching autofluorescence of insect tissues for in situ detection of endosymbionts

(2009) Ryuichi Koga et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

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

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

One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

(2009) Jennifer J Wernegreen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Genomics and Evolution of Heritable Bacterial Symbionts

(2008) Nancy A. Moran et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Evolution of Mammals and Their Gut Microbes

(2008) R. E. Ley et al.   SCIENCE

Culture-independent identification of gut bacteria in fourth-instar red imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren, larvae

(2007) Albert H. Lee et al.   JOURNAL OF INVERTEBRATE PATHOLOGY