Secondary Metabolites from Escovopsis weberi and Their Role in Attacking the Garden Fungus of Leaf-Cutting Ants

Imaging mass spectrometry and MS/MS molecular networking reveals chemical interactions among cuticular bacteria and pathogenic fungi associated with fungus-growing ants

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Nature of the interactions between hypocrealean fungi and the mutualistic fungus of leaf-cutter ants

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Selvamicin, an atypical antifungal polyene from two alternative genomic contexts

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Small genome of the fungusEscovopsis weberi, a specialized disease agent of ant agriculture

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Variable genetic architectures produce virtually identical molecules in bacterial symbionts of fungus-growing ants

(2015) Clarissa S. Sit et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Foraging Leaf-Cutting Ants Learn to Reject Vitis vinifera ssp. vinifera Plants that Emit Herbivore-Induced Volatiles

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Small-Molecule Suppressors of Candida albicans Biofilm Formation Synergistically Enhance the Antifungal Activity of Amphotericin B against Clinical Candida Isolates

(2013) Jianlan You et al.   ACS Chemical Biology

antiSMASH: rapid identification, annotation and analysis of secondary metabolite biosynthesis gene clusters in bacterial and fungal genome sequences

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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

A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

(2010) Jörg Barke et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

An Insect Herbivore Microbiome with High Plant Biomass-Degrading Capacity

(2010) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

Antagonistic interactions between garden yeasts and microfungal garden pathogens of leaf-cutting ants

(2009) Andre Rodrigues et al.   ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GENERAL AND MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Evaluation of Aloin and Aloe-Emodin as Anti-Inflammatory Agents in Aloe by Using Murine Macrophages

(2009) Mi-Young PARK et al.   BIOSCIENCE BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Dentigerumycin: a bacterial mediator of an ant-fungus symbiosis

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

Candicidin-producing Streptomyces support leaf-cutting ants to protect their fungus garden against the pathogenic fungus Escovopsis

(2009) S. Haeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bionectriol A, a polyketide glycoside from the fungus Bionectria sp. associated with the fungus-growing ant, Apterostigma dentigerum

(2009) Elizaveta Freinkman et al.   TETRAHEDRON LETTERS

Delayed rejection in a leaf-cutting ant after foraging on plants unsuitable for the symbiotic fungus

(2008) Hubert Herz et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Microfungal “Weeds” in the Leafcutter Ant Symbiosis

(2008) A. Rodrigues et al.   MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

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