A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

BACKGROUND: Attine ants live in an intensely studied tripartite mutualism with the fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, which provides food to the ants, and with antibiotic-producing actinomycete bacteria. One hypothesis suggests that bacteria from the genus Pseudonocardia are the sole, co-evolved mu...

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Autores principales: Barke, Jörg, Seipke, Ryan F, Grüschow, Sabine, Heavens, Darren, Drou, Nizar, Bibb, Mervyn J, Goss, Rebecca JM, Yu, Douglas W, Hutchings, Matthew I
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20796277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-109

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2942817/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20796277
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7007-8-109

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