Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria
Fungus-growing Allomerus ants are associated with antibiotic-producing actinobacteria
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DOI：
10.1007/s10482-011-9621-y
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发表时间：
2012-02-01
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
Hutchings, Matthew I.
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作者：
Seipke, Ryan F.;Barke, Joerg;Hutchings, Matthew I.
生长真菌的蚂蚁使用由共生放线菌产生的天然抗生素作为真菌花园中的“除草剂”。在这里，我们首次报道了生长真菌的Allomerus蚂蚁，它位于Attini部落之外，与抗真菌生产放线菌有关，放线菌为它们提供保护，免受从它们的抗植物中分离出来的非栽培真菌的侵害。
Fungus-growing attine ants use natural-product antibiotics produced by mutualist actinobacteria as 'weedkillers' in their fungal gardens. Here we report for the first time that fungus-growing Allomerus ants, which lie outside the tribe Attini, are associated with antifungal-producing actinobacteria, which offer them protection against non-cultivar fungi isolated from their ant-plants.