A mixed community of actinomycetes produce multiple antibiotics for the fungus farming ant Acromyrmex octospinosus

BMC Biology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Barke, Jörg ^a   Seipke, Ryan F ^a   Grüschow, Sabine ^a   Heavens, Darren ^b   Drou, Nizar ^b   Bibb, Mervyn J ^c   Goss, Rebecca J M ^a   Yu, Douglas W ^a,d   Hutchings, Matthew I ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b EARLHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROMYRMEX OCTOSPINOSUS; ACTINOBACTERIA; ACTINOBACTERIA (CLASS); APTEROSTIGMA DENTIGERUM; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LEUCOAGARICUS GONGYLOPHORUS; PSEUDONOCARDIA; STREPTOMYCES;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; CANDICIDIN;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; BIOSYNTHESIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ANIMALS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; ANTS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CANDICIDIN; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 77956996758     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7007-8-109     Document Type: Article

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