The fungal symbiont of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants expresses the full spectrum of genes to degrade cellulose and other plant cell wall polysaccharides

BACKGROUND: The fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants are natural biomass conversion systems that turn fresh plant forage into fungal biomass to feed the farming ants. However, the decomposition potential of the symbiont Leucocoprinus gongylophorus for processing polysaccharides has remained controver...

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Autores principales: Grell, Morten N, Linde, Tore, Nygaard, Sanne, Nielsen, Kåre L, Boomsma, Jacobus J, Lange, Lene
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-928

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3880420/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24373541
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2164-14-928

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