Symbiont-Mediated Protection of Acromyrmex Leaf-Cutter Ants from the Entomopathogenic Fungus Metarhizium anisopliae Journal Articles uri icon

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abstract

  • In some plants and animals, beneficial microbes mediate host immune response against pathogens, including by serving as defensive symbionts that produce antimicrobial compounds. Defensive symbionts are known in several insects, including some leaf-cutter ants where antifungal-producing Actinobacteria help protect the fungal mutualist of the ants from specialized mycoparasites.

authors

  • Bruner-Montero, Gaspar
  • Wood, Matthew
  • Horn, Heidi A
  • Gemperline, Erin
  • Li, Lingjun
  • Currie, Cameron

publication date

  • December 21, 2021

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