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Ancient Tripartite Coevolution in the Attine Ant-Microbe Symbiosis

Published:2003-01-17 Issue:5605 Volume:299 Page:386-388
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
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Author:

Currie Cameron R.¹²³⁴,Wong Bess³,Stuart Alison E.¹,Schultz Ted R.⁵,Rehner Stephen A.⁶,Mueller Ulrich G.²⁴,Sung Gi-Ho⁷,Spatafora Joseph W.⁷,Straus Neil A.³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA.

2. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado 2072, Balboa, Republic of Panama.

3. Department of Botany, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3B2, Canada.

4. Integrative Biology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA.

5. National Museum of Natural History, MRC 188, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013–7012, USA.

6. Insect Biocontrol Laboratory, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Building 011A, BARC-W, Beltsville, MD 20705, USA.

7. Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA.

Abstract

The symbiosis between fungus-growing ants and the fungi they cultivate for food has been shaped by 50 million years of coevolution. Phylogenetic analyses indicate that this long coevolutionary history includes a third symbiont lineage: specialized microfungal parasites of the ants' fungus gardens. At ancient levels, the phylogenies of the three symbionts are perfectly congruent, revealing that the ant-microbe symbiosis is the product of tripartite coevolution between the farming ants, their cultivars, and the garden parasites. At recent phylogenetic levels, coevolution has been punctuated by occasional host-switching by the parasite, thus intensifying continuous coadaptation between symbionts in a tripartite arms race.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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