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From Plants to Ants: Fungal Modification of Leaf Lipids for Nutrition and Communication in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungal Garden Ecosystem

Published:2021-04-27 Issue:2 Volume:6 Page:
ISSN:2379-5077
Container-title:mSystems
language:en
Short-container-title:mSystems

Author:

Khadempour Lily¹^ORCID,Kyle Jennifer E.²,Webb-Robertson Bobbie-Jo M.²,Nicora Carrie D.²,Smith Francesca B.²,Smith Richard D.²,Lipton Mary S.³,Currie Cameron R.¹,Baker Erin S.⁴,Burnum-Johnson Kristin E.³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA

2. Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA

3. The Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, Washington, USA

4. Department of Chemistry, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

Abstract

In this work, we examined the role of lipids in the mutualism between leaf-cutter ants and fungus. These ants cut fresh leaf material, which they provide to their fungal cultivar, that converts energy and nutrients from the plants and provides it to the ants in specialized hyphal swellings called gongylidia.

Funder

HHS | National Institutes of Health

U.S. Department of Energy

USDA | National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Computer Science Applications,Genetics,Molecular Biology,Modeling and Simulation,Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics,Biochemistry,Physiology,Microbiology

Link

https://journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1128/mSystems.01307-20

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