Imaging mass spectrometry and MS/MS molecular networking reveals chemical interactions among cuticular bacteria and pathogenic fungi associated with fungus-growing ants

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Boya, Cristopher A ^a,b   Fernández Marín, Hermógenes ^a   Mejiá, Luis C ^a   Spadafora, Carmenza ^c   Dorrestein, Pieter C ^d,e   Gutiérrez, Marcelino ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTÍFICAS Y SERVICIOS DE ALTA TECNOLOGÍA   (Panama)

^b ACHARYA NAGARJUNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c Centro de Biología Celular y Molecular de Enfermedades   (Panama)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^e San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ANIMAL; ANT; DRUG EFFECT; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; HYPOCREALES; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROCEDURES; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTS; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HYPOCREALES; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PHYLOGENY; STREPTOMYCES; SYMBIOSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 85025152010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05515-6     Document Type: Article

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