ANTIBIOTIC PRODUCTION - A POSSIBLE FUNCTION FOR THE METAPLEURAL GLANDS OF ANTS (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE)
ANTIBIOTIC PRODUCTION - A POSSIBLE FUNCTION FOR THE METAPLEURAL GLANDS OF ANTS (HYMENOPTERA, FORMICIDAE)
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抗生素的生产--蚂蚁（膜翅目，蚁科）膜下腺的一种可能功能
DOI：
10.1093/aesa/79.3.448
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发表时间：
1986-05-01
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
KNOX, RB
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作者：
BEATTIE, AJ;TURNBULL, CL;KNOX, RB
澳大利亚蚂蚁Myrmagnigrisscapa Roger的后胸膜腺分泌物进行了生物测定，以对抗通常发生在这种蚂蚁筑巢处的土壤真菌孢子。7种真菌中有4种为非虫生真菌，分别为Cladosporium resinae（Lindau）DeVries、Colletotrichum gloeosporioides（Penz.）Sacc.，粉红粘帚霉（Gliocladium roseum Bain）和铅垂毛霉（Mucor plumbeus Bon.）其中3种为虫生白僵菌（Beauveria bassiana巴尔斯）。维尔，淡紫拟青霉Paecilomyces lilacinus（Thom.）Samson和褐绿僵菌Metarhizium brunneum Petch.后胸膜分泌物显著降低除M外的所有真菌孢子的萌发。褐色。在这个物种中，实验和对照孢子发芽率大致相同，但分泌物显着降低随后的菌丝生长。这些数据，连同先前发表的实验，显示抑制菌丝生长在其他8个土壤真菌的metapallic分泌物，是一致的假设，即metapallic腺是抗生素的来源。另一种社会性的水虻类，蜜蜂和黄蜂，在受精卵细胞中保护它们的幼年期。相比之下，蚂蚁似乎利用来自后胸膜腺的抗生素分泌物。
Secretions from the metapleural gland of the Australian ant Myrmecia nigriscapa Roger were bioassayed against the spores of soil fungi that commonly occur where this ant nests. Four of the seven fungal species were nonentomogenous: Cladosporium resinae (Lindau) DeVries, Colletotrichum gloeosporioides (Penz.) Sacc., Gliocladium roseum Bain, and Mucor plumbeus Bon. Three were entomogenous: Beauveria bassiana Bals. Vuill., Paecilomyces lilacinus (Thom.) Samson, and Metarhizium brunneum Petch. Metapleural secretions significantly reduced germination of the spores of all fungal species except M. brunneum. In this species, experimental and control spores germinated at approximately equal rates, but the secretions significantly reduced subsequent hyphal growth. These data, together with previously published experiments that show suppression of mycelial growth in eight other soil fungi by metapleural secretions, are consistent with the hypothesis that the metapleural gland is a source of antibiotic. The other social Hymenoptera, the bees and wasps, protect their juvenile stages in antibiotic-impregnated brood cells. By contrast, ants appear to utilize antibiotic secretions from the metapleural gland.