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Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutting Ants Have Simple Gut Microbiota with Nitrogen-Fixing Potential

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Post-PKS Tailoring Steps of a Disaccharide-Containing Polyene NPP in Pseudonocardia autotrophica

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Pilon: An Integrated Tool for Comprehensive Microbial Variant Detection and Genome Assembly Improvement

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The Population Structure of Antibiotic-Producing Bacterial Symbionts of Apterostigma dentigerum Ants: Impacts of Coevolution and Multipartite Symbiosis

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Structural analysis and biosynthetic engineering of a solubility-improved and less-hemolytic nystatin-like polyene in Pseudonocardia autotrophica

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Draft Genome Sequence of Streptomyces Strain S4, a Symbiont of the Leaf-Cutting Ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

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

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

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Biosynthesis of the Putative Siderophore Erythrochelin Requires Unprecedented Crosstalk between Separate Nonribosomal Peptide Gene Clusters

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The methoxymalonyl-acyl carrier protein biosynthesis locus and the nearby gene with the β-ketoacyl synthase domain are involved in the biosynthesis of galbonolides in Streptomyces galbus, but these loci are separate from the modular polyketide synthase ge

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Identification of functionally clustered nystatin-like biosynthetic genes in a rare actinomycetes, Pseudonocardia autotrophica

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Dentigerumycin: a bacterial mediator of an ant-fungus symbiosis

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

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Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

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