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A Rebeccamycin Analog Provides Plasmid-Encoded Niche Defense ⬇️

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

A community resource for paired genomic and metabolomic data mining

scientific article published in 2021

A marine microbiome antifungal targets urgent-threat drug-resistant fungi

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Aerobic deconstruction of cellulosic biomass by an insect-associated Streptomyces ⬇️

scientific article published on January 7, 2013

An insect herbivore microbiome with high plant biomass-degrading capacity

scientific article

Ancient host-pathogen associations maintained by specificity of chemotaxis and antibiosis

scientific article published in July 2006

Ancient tripartite coevolution in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article (publication date: 17 January 2003)

Antagonistic bacterial interactions help shape host-symbiont dynamics within the fungus-growing ant-microbe mutualism

scientific article

Antibiotic and Antimalarial Quinones from Fungus-Growing Ant-Associated Pseudonocardia sp ⬇️

scientific article published on October 26, 2012

Association between Pseudonocardia symbionts and Atta leaf-cutting ants suggested by improved isolation methods

scientific article published in March 2013

Bacillibactins E and F from a Marine Sponge-Associated Bacillus sp

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Bacteria Contribute to Plant Secondary Compound Degradation in a Generalist Herbivore System

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Bacteria influence mountain pine beetle brood development through interactions with symbiotic and antagonistic fungi: implications for climate-driven host range expansion

scientific article published on 3 June 2015

Bacterial protection of beetle-fungus mutualism

scientific article

Bacterial symbionts in agricultural systems provide a strategic source for antibiotic discovery

scientific article published on 07 August 2013

Biochemical properties and atomic resolution structure of a proteolytically processed β-mannanase from cellulolytic Streptomyces sp. SirexAA-E

scientific article

Biogeography and Microscale Diversity Shape the Biosynthetic Potential of Fungus-growing Ant-associated Pseudonocardia

scholarly article published 10 February 2019

Biogeography of Bacterial Communities and Specialized Metabolism in Human Aerodigestive Tract Microbiomes

scientific article published on 27 October 2021

Biomineral armor in leaf-cutter ants

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Bionectriol A, a polyketide glycoside from the fungus Bionectria sp. associated with the fungus-growing ant, Apterostigma dentigerum ⬇️

scientific article published on December 2009

Black yeast symbionts compromise the efficiency of antibiotic defenses in fungus-growing ants

scientific article

Cellulolytic Streptomyces strains associated with herbivorous insects share a phylogenetically linked capacity to degrade lignocellulose

scientific article

Cellulose-Enriched Microbial Communities from Leaf-Cutter Ant (Atta colombica) Refuse Dumps Vary in Taxonomic Composition and Degradation Ability

scientific article

Cellulose-degrading bacteria associated with the invasive woodwasp Sirex noctilio

scientific article

Characterization of actinobacteria associated with three ant-plant mutualisms.

scientific article published on 6 August 2014

ChemInform Abstract: Mycangimycin, a Polyene Peroxide from a Mutualist Streptomyces sp.

scientific article published on 26 May 2009

ChemInform Abstract: Natalamycin A, an Ansamycin from a Termite-Associated Streptomyces sp

Chemical analyses of wasp-associated streptomyces bacteria reveal a prolific potential for natural products discovery ⬇️

scientific article

Coculture of Marine Invertebrate-Associated Bacteria and Interdisciplinary Technologies Enable Biosynthesis and Discovery of a New Antibiotic, Keyicin. ⬇️

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Coevolved crypts and exocrine glands support mutualistic bacteria in fungus-growing ants

scientific article

Common biosynthetic origins for polycyclic tetramate macrolactams from phylogenetically diverse bacteria ⬇️

scientific article

Comparison of 26 sphingomonad genomes reveals diverse environmental adaptations and biodegradative capabilities

scientific article (publication date: June 2013)

Competition among Nasal Bacteria Suggests a Role for Siderophore-Mediated Interactions in Shaping the Human Nasal Microbiota

scientific article published on 02 May 2019

Competition, Cannibalism and Intraguild Predation among Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae): A Laboratory Study

Complete Genome Sequence of Dietzia sp. Strain WMMA184, a Marine Coral-Associated Bacterium

scientific article published in February 2018

Complete Genome Sequence of Rhodococcus sp. Strain WMMA185, a Marine Sponge-Associated Bacterium

scientific article published on 15 December 2016

Complete Genome of Enterobacteriaceae Bacterium Strain FGI 57, a Strain Associated with Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungus Gardens

scientific article published on January 2013

Complete Genome of Serratia sp. Strain FGI 94, a Strain Associated with Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungus Gardens

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

Complete genome sequence of the cellulose-degrading bacterium Cellulosilyticum lentocellum

scientific article

Complex host-pathogen coevolution in the Apterostigma fungus-growing ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article

Convergent bacterial microbiotas in the fungal agricultural systems of insects

scientific article

Convergent evolution of complex structures for ant-bacterial defensive symbiosis in fungus-farming ants

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Convergent evolution of signal-structure interfaces for maintaining symbioses

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Correction: Enrichment and Broad Representation of Plant Biomass-Degrading Enzymes in the Specialized Hyphal Swellings of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the Fungal Symbiont of Leaf-Cutter Ants

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Correction: Unique Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Hive Component-Based Communities as Detected by a Hybrid of Phospholipid Fatty-Acid and Fatty-Acid Methyl Ester Analyses

scientific article published on 14 July 2015

Cycloheximide-Producing Streptomyces Associated With Xyleborinus saxesenii and Xyleborus affinis Fungus-Farming Ambrosia Beetles

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Cycloheximide-Producing Streptomyces Associated with Xyleborinus saxesenii and Xyleborus affinis Fungus-Farming Ambrosia Beetles: Supplementary Methods and Figures

Defending against parasites: fungus-growing ants combine specialized behaviours and microbial symbionts to protect their fungus gardens

scientific article

Defense contracts: molecular protection in insect-microbe symbioses

scientific article published on 26 July 2017

Dentigerumycin: a bacterial mediator of an ant-fungus symbiosis ⬇️

scientific article published on 29 March 2009

Draft Genome Sequence of Micromonospora sp. Strain WMMA1996, a Marine Sponge-Associated Bacterium.

scientific article

Draft Genome Sequence of Micromonospora sp. Strain WMMB235, a Marine Ascidian-Associated Bacterium.

scientific article published on 12 January 2017

Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile) ⬇️

scientific article

Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

scientific article

Draft genome sequence of Streptomyces sp. strain Wigar10, isolated from a surface-sterilized garlic bulb

scientific article published on December 2011

Ecological interactions drive evolutionary loss of traits

scientific article published on 02 July 2012

Effect of Substrate Depth on Predation of Larval Pterostichus adstrictus Eschscholtz by Adults of P. melanarius (Illiger) (Coleoptera: Carabidae)

Emerging evolutionary paradigms in antibiotic discovery

scientific article published on 29 September 2018

Empirical, Metagenomic, and Computational Techniques Illuminate the Mechanisms by which Fungicides Compromise Bee Health.

scientific article published on 9 October 2017

Enrichment and Broad Representation of Plant Biomass-Degrading Enzymes in the Specialized Hyphal Swellings of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the Fungal Symbiont of Leaf-Cutter Ants

scientific article

Ephemeral windows of opportunity for horizontal transmission of fungal symbionts in leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published on 9 April 2009

Erratum for Francoeur et al., “Bacteria Contribute to Plant Secondary Compound Degradation in a Generalist Herbivore System”

scientific article published in 2021

Evidence for Widespread Associations between Neotropical Hymenopteran Insects and Actinobacteria

scientific article published on 17 October 2017

Evolution and Ecology of Actinobacteria and Their Bioenergy Applications.

scientific article published on September 2016

Evolution of High Cellulolytic Activity in Symbiotic Streptomyces through Selection of Expanded Gene Content and Coordinated Gene Expression

scientific article

Evolution of substrate specificity in bacterial AA10 lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases

scientific article

Experimental Microbiomes: Models Not to Scale

scientific article published on 30 July 2019

Experimental Warming Reduces Survival, Cold Tolerance, and Gut Prokaryotic Diversity of the Eastern Subterranean Termite, <i>Reticulitermes flavipes</i> (Kollar)

scientific article published on 17 May 2021

Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

scientific article published in September 2004

Exploring the potential for actinobacteria as defensive symbionts in fungus-growing termites.

scientific article published on 16 December 2011

Functional metagenomics reveals abundant polysaccharide-degrading gene clusters and cellobiose utilization pathways within gut microbiota of a wood-feeding higher termite

article

Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites

scientific article published in Nature

Fungus-growing insects host a distinctive microbiota apparently adapted to the fungiculture environment

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

Gene fragmentation in bacterial draft genomes: extent, consequences and mitigation ⬇️

scientific article published on January 10, 2012

Genome sequence of Streptomyces griseus strain XylebKG-1, an ambrosia beetle-associated actinomycete

scientific article

Geographic variation in bacterial communities associated with the red turpentine beetle (Coleoptera: Curculionidae).

scientific article published in April 2010

Gut Microbial and Metabolic Responses to Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium and Candida albicans

article

High Throughput Co-culture Assays for the Investigation of Microbial Interactions

scientific article published on 15 October 2019

Imaging with Mass Spectrometry of Bacteria on the Exoskeleton of Fungus-Growing Ants.

scientific article published on 15 June 2017

Insect symbioses: a case study of past, present, and future fungus-growing ant research

scientific article published on February 2009

Interaction between workers during a short time window is required for bacterial symbiont transmission in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

scientific article

Laryngotracheal Microbiota in Adult Laryngotracheal Stenosis

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Lateral Gene Transfer Dynamics in the Ancient Bacterial Genus Streptomyces

scientific article

Leucoagaricus gongylophorus produces diverse enzymes for the degradation of recalcitrant plant polymers in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens

scientific article (publication date: June 2013)

Lignocellulose pretreatment in a fungus-cultivating termite

scientific article

Linear Peptides Are the Major Products of a Biosynthetic Pathway That Encodes for Cyclic Depsipeptides ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 March 2017

Local Adaptation of Bacterial Symbionts within a Geographic Mosaic of Antibiotic Coevolution

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Low host-pathogen specificity in the leaf-cutting ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article published in August 2007

MS-Derived Isotopic Fine Structure Reveals Forazoline A as a Thioketone-Containing Marine-Derived Natural Product

scientific article published on 04 February 2020

Macrotermycins A-D, Glycosylated Macrolactams from a Termite-Associated Amycolatopsis sp. M39. ⬇️

scientific article

Madurastatin D1 and D2, Oxazoline Containing Siderophores Isolated from an Actinomadura sp

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Major changes in microbial diversity and community composition across gut sections of a juvenile Panchlora cockroach

scientific article

Metagenomic and metaproteomic insights into bacterial communities in leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens

scientific article

Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants

scientific article published on 24 September 2020

Microbes are trophic analogs of animals

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Microbial Diversity Associated with the Pollen Stores of Captive-Bred Bumble Bee Colonies

scientific article published on 16 April 2020

Microbial community modulates growth of symbiotic fungus required for stingless bee metamorphosis

scientific article published on 25 July 2019

Microbial community structure of leaf-cutter ant fungus gardens and refuse dumps

scientific article

Microtermolides A and B from termite-associated Streptomyces sp. and structural revision of vinylamycin ⬇️

scientific article

Minimization of chloroplast contamination in 16S rRNA gene pyrosequencing of insect herbivore bacterial communities ⬇️

scientific article published on August 19, 2013

Mountain pine beetles colonizing historical and naive host trees are associated with a bacterial community highly enriched in genes contributing to terpene metabolism

scientific article

Mycangimycin, a polyene peroxide from a mutualist Streptomyces sp ⬇️

scientific article

Natalamycin A, an Ansamycin from a Termite-Associated Streptomyces sp. ⬇️

scientific article

ORFcor: identifying and accommodating ORF prediction inconsistencies for phylogenetic analysis

scientific article

On ants, plants and fungi.

scientific article published in June 2009

Parasites may help stabilize cooperative relationships

scientific article

Pathogenicity of Escovopsis weberi: The parasite of the attine ant-microbe symbiosis directly consumes the ant-cultivated fungus.

scientific article published in September 2004

Phylogenetic analysis of mutualistic filamentous bacteria associated with fungus-growing ants

scientific article

Phylogenomic analysis and predicted physiological role of the proton-translocating NADH:quinone oxidoreductase (complex I) across bacteria

scientific article published on 14 April 2015

Pollen-borne microbes shape bee fitness.

scientific article published on 12 June 2019

Preliminary in vitro insights into the use of natural fungal pathogens of leaf-cutting ants as biocontrol agents

scientific article published on 8 July 2011

Presence and diversity of Streptomyces in Dendroctonus and sympatric bark beetle galleries across North America

scientific article

Prevalence and impact of a virulent parasite on a tripartite mutualism

scientific article published on June 2001

Prokaryotic Super Program Advisory Committee DOE Joint Genome Institute, Walnut Creek, CA, March 27, 2013.

scientific article published on 30 July 2013

Pyonitrins A-D: Chimeric Natural Products Produced by Pseudomonas protegens ⬇️

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

Pyrazines from bacteria and ants: convergent chemistry within an ecological niche.

scientific article published on 7 February 2018

SANDPUMA: Ensemble Predictions of Nonribosomal Peptide Chemistry Reveals Biosynthetic Diversity across Actinobacteria

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

SREB, a GATA transcription factor that directs disparate fates in Blastomyces dermatitidis including morphogenesis and siderophore biosynthesis

scientific article

Sceliphrolactam, a polyene macrocyclic lactam from a wasp-associated Streptomyces sp ⬇️

scientific article

Selvamicin, an atypical antifungal polyene from two alternative genomic contexts ⬇️

scientific article (publication date: 15 November 2016)

Small genome of the fungus Escovopsis weberi, a specialized disease agent of ant agriculture

scientific article published on 14 March 2016

Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

scientific article published on May 2013

Specificity in the symbiotic association between fungus-growing ants and protective Pseudonocardia bacteria

scientific article published on 24 November 2010

Stingless Bee Larvae Require Fungal Steroid to Pupate

scientific article

Substrate Shift Reveals Roles for Members of Bacterial Consortia in Degradation of Plant Cell Wall Polymers

scientific article published in March 2018

Symbiont interactions in a tripartite mutualism: exploring the presence and impact of antagonism between two fungus-growing ant mutualists

scientific article

Symbiont recognition of mutualistic bacteria by Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published on 7 June 2007

Symbiont-Mediated Digestion of Plant Biomass in Fungus-Farming Insects

scientific article published on 14 September 2020

Symbiotic complexity: discovery of a fifth symbiont in the attine ant-microbe symbiosis

scientific article

Symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the fungus gardens of leaf-cutter ants

scientific article

Taxonomic and Metabolic Incongruence in the Ancient Genus Streptomyces

scientific article published on 20 September 2019

The Evolutionary Innovation of Nutritional Symbioses in Leaf-Cutter Ants

scientific article

The Population Structure of Antibiotic-Producing Bacterial Symbionts ofApterostigma dentigerumAnts: Impacts of Coevolution and Multipartite Symbiosis ⬇️

scientific article published on September 25, 2012

The antimicrobial potential of Streptomyces from insect microbiomes ⬇️

scientific article published in Nature Communications

The complete genome sequence of Fibrobacter succinogenes S85 reveals a cellulolytic and metabolic specialist

scientific article (publication date: 19 April 2011)

The fungal cultivar of leaf-cutter ants produces specific enzymes in response to different plant substrates

scientific article

The fungus gardens of leaf-cutter ants undergo a distinct physiological transition during biomass degradation

scientific article

The future of fungi: threats and opportunities

scientific article published on 4 November 2022

The genome sequence of the leaf-cutter ant Atta cephalotes reveals insights into its obligate symbiotic lifestyle

scientific article

The infrabuccal pellet piles of fungus-growing ants

scientific article published on 4 November 2003

The natural history of antibiotics

scientific article

The role of symbiont genetic distance and potential adaptability in host preference towards Pseudonocardia symbionts in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants

scientific article published on January 2011

Tryptorubin A, a polycyclic peptide from a fungus-derived Streptomycete. ⬇️

scientific article published on 30 August 2017

Ultrastructural and microbial analyses of cellulose degradation in leaf-cutter ant colonies

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Unique honey bee (Apis mellifera) hive component-based communities as detected by a hybrid of phospholipid fatty-acid and fatty-acid methyl ester analyses

scientific article

Variable genetic architectures produce virtually identical molecules in bacterial symbionts of fungus-growing ants

scientific article

Variation in Pseudonocardia antibiotic defence helps govern parasite-induced morbidity in Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants.

scientific article

Whole-Genome Sequence of Bacillus sp. SDLI1, Isolated from the Social Bee Scaptotrigona depilis

scientific article

Xenorhabdus bovienii Strain Diversity Impacts Coevolution and Symbiotic Maintenance with Steinernema spp. Nematode Hosts.

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

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