Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis

Science

Volumn 299, Issue 5605, 2003, Pages 386-388

  Currie, Cameron R ^a,b,c,d   Wong, Bess ^c   Stuart, Alison E ^a   Schultz, Ted R ^e   Rehner, Stephen A ^f   Mueller, Ulrich G ^b,d   Sung, Gi Ho ^g   Spatafora, Joseph W ^g   Straus, Neil A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^f AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^g OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNGI;

FUNGUS-GROWING ANTS;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANT; COEVOLUTION; FUNGUS; MYRMECOPHILY; PHYLOGENETICS; SYMBIOSIS;

ADAPTATION; ANT; ARTICLE; CULTIVAR; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS CULTURE; FUNGUS GROWTH; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMBIOSIS;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; ANTS; ASCOMYCOTA; BACTERIAL PHYSIOLOGY; DNA, FUNGAL; EVOLUTION; HYPOCREALES; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

ARACHNIDA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0347296100     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1078155     Document Type: Article

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25. Supported by fellowships from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (to C.R.C. and U.G.M.), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (to C.R.C. and N.S.), NSF [Integrative Research Challenges in Environmental Biology DEB-0110073 (to U.G.M., C.R.C., and T.R.S.), DEB0129212 (to J.W.S.), and CAREER DEB-9983879 (to U.G.M.)], and the Smithsonian Institute (Scholarly Studies and National Museum of Natural History Biological Surveys and Inventories grants to T.R.S.). We thank STRI, Autoridad Nacional del Ambiente of the Republic of Panama, the Biological Diversity of the Guyanas Program, and the Government of Guyana for facilitating the research and granting collecting permits. We also thank G. de Alba, E. Bermingham, V. Funk, A. Glenn, A. Herre, H. Herz, L. Ketch, M. Leone, G. Maggion, D. Malloch, T. Murakami, A. Rossman, G. Samuels, J. Scott, and B. Wcislo for logistical support; and M. Cafaro, G. Currie, N. Gerardo, R. Lichtwardt, A. Little, S. Price, J. Sachs, C. Taylor, and M. White for valuable comments on this manuscript.