Repeated Evolution of Fungal Cultivar Specificity in Independently Evolved Ant-Plant-Fungus Symbioses

Symbiont recruitment versus ant-symbiont co-evolution in the attine ant–microbe symbiosis

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Multi-locus phylogenies of the genus Barteria (Passifloraceae) portray complex patterns in the evolution of myrmecophytism

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

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

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Specific, non-nutritional association between an ascomycete fungus and Allomerus plant-ants

(2010) M. X. Ruiz-Gonzalez et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2010) Jörg Barke et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Dissecting the association between a gall midge, Asteromyia carbonifera, and its symbiotic fungus, Botryosphaeria dothidea

(2010) Jeremy J. Heath et al.   ENTOMOLOGIA EXPERIMENTALIS ET APPLICATA

The diversity of ant-associated black yeasts: insights into a newly discovered world of symbiotic interactions

(2010) Hermann Voglmayr et al.   Fungal Biology

Monoculture of Leafcutter Ant Gardens

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

Plant-ants feed their host plant, but above all a fungal symbiont to recycle nitrogen

(2010) E. Defossez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

New Algorithms and Methods to Estimate Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies: Assessing the Performance of PhyML 3.0

(2010) Stéphane Guindon et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Uniting pattern and process in plant–animal mutualistic networks: a review

(2009) Diego P. Vázquez et al.   ANNALS OF BOTANY

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

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

Insect Symbioses: A Case Study of Past, Present, and Future Fungus-growing Ant Research

(2009) Eric J. Caldera et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL ENTOMOLOGY

Ant-plants and fungi: a new threeway symbiosis

(2009) Emmanuel Defossez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Ants on plants: a meta-analysis of the role of ants as plant biotic defenses

(2009) Felix B. Rosumek et al.   OECOLOGIA

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

Mycelial carton galleries of Azteca brevis (Formicidae) as a multi-species network

(2009) V. E. Mayer 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