Leucoagaricus gongylophorus uses leaf-cutting ants to vector proteolytic enzymes towards new plant substrate

ISME Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1032-1040

  Kooij, Pepijn W ^a   Rogowska Wrzesinska, Adelina ^b   Hoffmann, Daniel ^a   Roepstorff, Peter ^b   Boomsma, Jacobus J ^a   Schiøtt, Morten ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acromyrmex echinatior; mutualism; nutrition; phytopathogens; proteases

Indexed keywords

ANT; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FUNGUS; HERBIVORE; INOCULATION; MUTUALISM; PH; PROTEIN; SUBSTRATE; SYMBIONT; ASPARTIC ACID; DECOMPOSITION; GROWTH; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; NUTRITION;

ACROMYRMEX ECHINATIOR; ATTA; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; LEUCOAGARICUS GONGYLOPHORUS;

PEPTIDE HYDROLASE;

AGARICALES; ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; ENZYMOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT LEAF; SYMBIOSIS;

AGARICALES; ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PLANT LEAVES; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84899472027     PISSN: 17517362     EISSN: 17517370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ismej.2013.231     Document Type: Article

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