Chemical basis of the synergism and antagonism in microbial communities in the nests of leaf-cutting ants

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

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1955-1960

  Schoenian, Ilka ^a   Spiteller, Michael ^b   Ghaste, Manoj ^b   Wirth, Rainer ^c   Herz, Hubert ^d   Spiteller, Dieter ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

^b TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

^d SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Chemical defense; Chemical imaging; Ecological function

Indexed keywords

ANTIMYCIN A1; DACTINOMYCIN; VALINOMYCIN;

AGAR DIFFUSION; ANT; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; INTEGUMENT; LEAF CUTTING ANT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDONOCARDIACEAE; SOIL MICROFLORA; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; ANTS; BACTERIA; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FUNGI; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANT LEAVES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; SYMBIOSIS;

ACROMYRMEX ECHINATIOR; ATTA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCOVOPSIS WEBERI; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LEUCOAGARICUS GONGYLOPHORUS; PSEUDONOCARDIA; STREPTOMYCES;

EID: 79952128810     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1008441108     Document Type: Article

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