Journal article
Mapping microhabitats of lignocellulose decomposition by a microbial consortium
Abstract
The leaf-cutter ant fungal garden ecosystem is a naturally evolved model system for efficient plant biomass degradation. Degradation processes mediated by the symbiotic fungus Leucoagaricus gongylophorus are difficult to characterize due to dynamic metabolisms and spatial complexity of the system. Herein, we performed microscale imaging across 12-µm-thick adjacent sections of Atta cephalotes fungal gardens and applied a metabolome-informed …
Authors
Veličković M; Wu R; Gao Y; Thairu MW; Veličković D; Munoz N; Clendinen CS; Bilbao A; Chu RK; Lalli PM
Journal
Nature Chemical Biology, Vol. 20, No. 8, pp. 1033–1043
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
8 2024
DOI
10.1038/s41589-023-01536-7
ISSN
1552-4450