Ants, plants and antibiotics

Ted R. Schultz ()
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Nature, 1999, vol. 398, issue 6730, 747-748

Abstract: Leaf-cutting ants cultivate a mushroom from the fungal tribe Leucocoprini as a source of food. But a new study shows that there is another partner in this mutually beneficial relationship -- a bacterium from the genusStreptomyces, which produces antibiotics to prevent infestation of the ant garden by the fungal parasite Escovopsis.

Date: 1999
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