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| Autor(es): |
Pereira, Jaqueline S.
[1]
;
Costa, Rafael R.
[1]
;
Nagamoto, Nilson S.
[2]
;
Forti, Luiz C.
[2]
;
Pagnocca, Fernando C.
[1, 3]
;
Rodrigues, Andre
[1, 3]
Número total de Autores: 6
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| Afiliação do(s) autor(es): | [1] Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Biochem & Microbiol, UNESP, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP - Brazil
[2] Univ Estadual Paulista, Dept Vegetal Protect, UNESP, Botucatu, SP - Brazil
[3] Univ Estadual Paulista, Ctr Study Social Insects, UNESP, BR-13506900 Rio Claro, SP - Brazil
Número total de Afiliações: 3
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo Científico |
| Fonte: | Fungal Ecology; v. 21, p. 68-75, JUN 2016. |
| Citações Web of Science: | 7 |
| Resumo | |
Fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants harbor diverse alien fungi in addition to their fungal cultivar. Previous work suggested that alien microorganisms are likely derived from the substrata foraged by ant workers and incorporated into the fungus gardens. To test this hypothesis, we sampled 1014 garden fragments from 16 field colonies of Atta sexdens rubropilosa (a dicot-cutting ant) and Atta capiguara (a grass-cutting ant) in Brazil. From a total of 615 fungal isolates recovered, we observed similar diversity of fungi between colonies of both ant species. However, fungal communities differed in composition of taxa between ant colonies. Trichoderma spirale, Trichosporon chiarellii and Penicillium citrinum were prevalent accounting for 18.5%, 12.2% and 11.7% of the total isolates, respectively. As expected, fungal communities clustered in two major groups supporting the hypothesis that plant substratum has an impact on the composition of the alien fungi found in leaf-cutting ant gardens. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd and British Mycological Society. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| Processo FAPESP: | 11/16765-0 - Código de barras de DNA e potencial biotecnológico dos microfungos associados aos ninhos das formigas cortadeiras |
| Beneficiário: | André Rodrigues |
| Modalidade de apoio: | Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores |