ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
First experimental evidence for active farming in ambrosia beetles and strong heredity of garden microbiomes.
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- Fungal backpackers-the mycobiome ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2025Pooled it
- Bark and ambrosia beetle fungi emit a greater diversity of volatile organic compounds than other fungi.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2026Article
- Genetic tools for transformation of Xyleborus ambrosia beetle fungal symbionts.Fungal biology and biotechnology · 2026Article
- Carrying the seeds of your crop: fungal genetic networks activated during colonization of the ambrosia beetle symbiotic organ.BMC genomics · 2026Article
- Exotic ambrosia beetles and phytopathogenic fungi associated with rapid apple decline in North Carolina.Journal of economic entomology · 2025Article
- Microbial Interactions Support the Role of Ambrosia Beetles as Potential Vectors of Dutch Elm Disease.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Artificial Selection of Early Emerging Helpers in the Cooperatively Breeding Ambrosia BeetleEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- How cryptic animal vectors of fungi can influence forest health in a changing climate and how to anticipate them.Applied microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Bacterial communities associated with ambrosia beetles: current knowledge and existing gaps.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
- Growth variation of an ambrosia fungus on different tree species indicates host specialization.Frontiers in insect science · 2025Article
- Shaping the environment -iScience · 2024Article
- Connecting and integrating cooperation within and between species.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- Dynamics and drivers of fungal communities in a multipartite ant-plant association.BMC biology · 2024Article
- How many do we need? Meeting the challenges of studying the microbiome of a cryptic insect in an orchard.Frontiers in microbiology · 2024Article
- Know When You Are Too Many: Density-Dependent Release of Pheromones During Host Colonisation by the European Spruce Bark Beetle, Ips typographus (L.).Journal of chemical ecology · 2023Article
- Erwiniaceae bacteria play defensive and nutritional roles in two widespread ambrosia beetles.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2023Article
- Fidelity or love the one you're with? Biotic complexity and tradeoffs can drive strategy and specificity in beetle-fungus by-product mutualisms.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Transmission of beneficial yeasts accompanies offspring production inEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Volatiles of fungal cultivars act as cues for host-selection in the fungus-farming ambrosia beetleFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Comparing the succession of microbial communities throughout development in field and laboratory nests of the ambrosia beetleFrontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Fungal cultivation is a defining feature for advanced agriculture in fungus-farming ants and termites. In a third supposedly fungus-farming group, wood-colonizing ambrosia beetles, an experimental proof for the effectiveness of beetle activity for selective promotion of their food fungi over others is lacking and farming has only been assumed based on observations of social and hygienic behaviours. Here, we experimentally removed mothers and their offspring from young nests of the fruit-tree pinhole borer,
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