Generalized antifungal activity and 454-screening of Pseudonocardia and Amycolatopsis bacteria in nests of fungus-growing ants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 42, 2009, Pages 17805-17810

  Sen, Ruchira ^a   Ishak, Heather D ^a   Estrada, Dora ^a   Dowd, Scot E ^b   Hong, Eunki ^a   Mueller, Ulrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b Medical Biofilm Research Institute Lubbock   (United States)

Author keywords

Actinomycete; Attini; Escovopsis; Mutualism; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

AMYCOLATOPSIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANT; ANTIBIOSIS; ANTIFUNGAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERICIDAL ACTIVITY; BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTIVAR; ENDOPHYTE; ENTOMOPATHOGENY; EVOLUTION; FUNGUS; FUNGUS GROWTH; MALE; MATING; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE; PYROSEQUENCING; SAPROTROPH; SCREENING;

ACTINOBACTERIA; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; HYPOCREALES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT DISEASES; SYMBIOSIS;

AMYCOLATOPSIS; ATTINI; ESCOVOPSIS; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; PSEUDONOCARDIA;

EID: 70449555142     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0904827106     Document Type: Article

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