ArticlemSystems2021
From Plants to Ants: Fungal Modification of Leaf Lipids for Nutrition and Communication in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungal Garden Ecosystem.
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- Evidence of cellular adaptations in a fungal cultivar promoting resource exchange with leafcutter ant farmers.Biology letters · 2025Article
- Harnessing Nutritional Niches to Explore Fungus-Animal Symbioses.Ecology letters · 2025Review
- Genomic Signatures of Domestication in a Fungus Obligately Farmed by Leafcutter Ants.Molecular biology and evolution · 2024Article
- Mapping microhabitats of lignocellulose decomposition by a microbial consortium.Nature chemical biology · 2024Article
- Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association.BMC biology · 2024Article
- Production of Escovopsis conidia and the potential use of this parasitic fungus as a biological control agent of leaf-cutting ant fungus gardens.Archives of microbiology · 2024Article
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- Lessons From Insect Fungiculture: From Microbial Ecology to Plastics Degradation.Frontiers in microbiology · 2022Article
- The multidimensional nutritional niche of fungus-cultivar provisioning in free-ranging colonies of a neotropical leafcutter ant.Ecology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Lipids are essential to all living organisms, as an energy source, as an important cellular structural component, and as a communication tool. In this study, we used global lipidomic methods to evaluate the lipids in leaf-cutter ant fungal gardens. Leaf-cutter ants and their coevolved fungal cultivar,
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