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New light on the systematics of fungi associated with attine ant gardens and the description of Escovopsis kreiselii sp. nov.
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- Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Interactions amongJournal of fungi (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Fungi inhabiting attine ant colonies: reassessment of the genus Escovopsis and description of Luteomyces and Sympodiorosea gens. nov.IMA fungus · 2021Article
- Disease management in two sympatricEcology and evolution · 2021Article
- More pieces to a huge puzzle: Two newMycoKeys · 2019Article
- Symbiont-Mediated Host-Parasite Dynamics in a Fungus-Gardening Ant.Microbial ecology · 2018Article
- Riding with the ants.Persoonia · 2017Article
- Shared Escovopsis parasites between leaf-cutting and non-leaf-cutting ants in the higher attine fungus-growing ant symbiosis.Royal Society open science · 2015Article
- Functional role of phenylacetic acid from metapleural gland secretions in controlling fungal pathogens in evolutionarily derived leaf-cutting ants.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2015Article
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Abstract
Since the formal description of fungi in the genus Escovopsis in 1990, only a few studies have focused on the systematics of this group. For more than two decades, only two Escovopsis species were described; however, in 2013, three additional Escovopsis species were formally described along with the genus Escovopsioides, both found exclusively in attine ant gardens. During a survey for Escovopsis species in gardens of the lower attine ant Mycetophylax morschi in Brazil, we found four strains belonging to the pink-colored Escovopsis clade. Careful examination of these strains revealed significant morphological differences when compared to previously described species of Escovopsis and Escovopsioides. Based on the type of conidiogenesis (sympodial), as well as morphology of conidiogenous cells (percurrent), non-vesiculated conidiophores, and DNA sequences, we describe the four new strains as a new species, Escovopsis kreiselii sp. nov. Phylogenetic analyses using three nuclear markers (Large subunit RNA; translation elongation factor 1-alpha; and internal transcribed spacer) from the new strains as well as available sequences in public databases confirmed that all known fungi infecting attine ant gardens comprise a monophyletic group within the Hypocreaceae family, with very diverse morphological characteristics. Specifically, Escovopsis kreiselii is likely associated with gardens of lower-attine ants and its pathogenicity remains uncertain.
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