Yeasts found on an ephemeral reproductive caste of the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens rubropilosa

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, International Journal of General and Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 475-487

  Arcuri, Silvio Lovato ^a   Pagnocca, Fernando Carlos ^a   Da Paixão Melo, Weilan Gomes ^a   Nagamoto, Nilson Satoru ^a   Komura, Dirce Leimi ^b   Rodrigues, Andre ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS DA AMAZÔNIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dispersal; Fungi; Insect; Nuptial flight; Plant degrading enzymes

Indexed keywords

CELLULASE; LIGNIN PEROXIDASE; POLYGALACTURONASE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE;

ANT; ARTICLE; ATTA SEXDENS; AUREOBASIDIUM; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; BIOMASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOCOCCUS; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; EPHEMERAL SPECIES; FUNGAL STRAIN; FUNGUS CULTURE; HANNAELLA; INSECT CASTE; INTEGUMENT; MALE; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLANT METABOLISM; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHODOTORULA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SYMBIOSIS; YEAST;

ATTA; ATTA SEXDENS RUBROPILOSA; AUREOBASIDIUM; AUREOBASIDIUM PULLULANS; FORMICIDAE; FUNGI; HEXAPODA; RHODOTORULA (ERYTHROBASIDIUM CLADE);

EID: 84905584815     PISSN: 00036072     EISSN: 15729699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10482-014-0216-2     Document Type: Article

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