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

C. R. Currie, J. A. Scott, R. C. Summerbell and D. Malloch

Nature, 2003, vol. 423, issue 6938, 461-461

Abstract: Nature 398, 701–704 (1999). We reported in this Letter that, on the basis of its cell-wall chemistry, the bacterium associated with the fungus-growing ant Acromyrmex octospinosus is in the genus Streptomyces (Streptomycetaceae: Actinomycetes). It has been brought to our attention by Nature that R. Wirth, T. Wagner, C. Kost, I. Böttcher, W.-R. Arendholz and M. Redenbach (manuscript submitted) do not find evidence of a specialized relationship between bacteria in the genus Streptomyces and fungus-growing ants in the genus Acromyrmex. Our ongoing molecular phylogenetic analyses reveal that the specialized symbiotic bacterium associated with Acromyrmex is not a species of Streptomyces, but is instead in the actinomycetous family Pseudonocardiaceae (C.R.C. and M. Cafaro, manuscript in preparation). This genus-level misidentification does not affect our other conclusions.

Date: 2003
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