Chemical Gradients of Plant Substrates in an <italic toggle="yes">Atta texana</italic> Fungus Garden

Chemical Gradients of Plant Substrates in an <italic toggle="yes">Atta texana</italic> Fungus Garden

ABSTRACT Many ant species grow fungus gardens that predigest food as an essential step of the ants’ nutrient uptake. These symbiotic fungus gardens have long been studied and feature a gradient of increasing substrate degradation from top to bottom. To further facilitate the study of fungus gardens...

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Main Authors: Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez, Sara P. Puckett, Kathleen E. Kyle, Daniel Petras, Ricardo da Silva, Louis-Félix Nothias, Madeleine Ernst, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Anupriya Tripathi, Mingxun Wang, Marcy J. Balunas, Jonathan L. Klassen, Pieter C. Dorrestein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2021-08-01
Series:mSystems
Subjects:
ant fungus garden
Atta texana
chemical transformation
fungal symbiont
metabolomics
molecular cartography
Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mSystems.00601-21

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