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Exploring the Potential for Actinobacteria as Defensive Symbionts in Fungus-Growing Termites by Visser, Anna A., Nobre, Tânia, Currie, Cameron R., Aanen, Duur K., Poulsen, Michael

“…In fungus-growing termites, fungi of the subgenus Pseudoxylaria threaten colony health through substrate competition with the termite fungus (Termitomyces)…”
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Black Yeast Symbionts Compromise the Efficiency of Antibiotic Defenses in Fungus-growing Ants by Little, A.E.F, Currie, C.R

“…Multiplayer symbioses are common in nature, but our understanding of the ecological dynamics occurring in complex symbioses is limited. The tripartite…”
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Pathogenicity of Escovopsis weberi: The parasite of the attine ant-microbe symbiosis directly consumes the ant-cultivated fungus by Reynolds, Hannah T., Currie, Cameron R.

“…Fungi in the genus Escovopsis are known only from the fungus gardens of attine ants. Previous work has established that these anamorphic fungi, allied with the…”
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agricultural pathology of ant fungus gardens by Currie, C.R, Mueller, U.G, Malloch, D

“…Gardens of fungus-growing ants (Formicidae: Attini) traditionally have been thought to be free of microbial parasites, with the fungal mutualist maintained in…”
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Specificity of the mutualistic association between actinomycete bacteria and two sympatric species of Acromyrmex leaf-cutting ants by Poulsen, M, Cafaro, M, Boomsma, J.J, Currie, C.R

“…Acromyrmex leaf‐cutting ants maintain two highly specialized, vertically transmitted mutualistic ectosymbionts: basidiomycete fungi that are cultivated for…”
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Exploiting a mutualism: parasite specialization on cultivars within the fungus-growing ant symbiosis by Gerardo, N.M, Mueller, U.G, Price, S.L, Currie, C.R

“…spp. allows us to test whether…”
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Presence of Multiparasite Infections Within Individual Colonies of Leaf-Cutter Ants by Taerum, S. J, Cafaro, M. J, Currie, C. R

“…Host—parasite dynamics can be altered when a host is infected by multiple parasite genotypes. The different strains of parasite are expected to compete for the…”
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Waste management in leaf-cutting ants by Bot, A.N.M., Currie, C.R., Hart, A.G., Boomsma, J.J.

“…Hygienic behaviour is an important aspect of social organisation because living in aggregations facilitates the spread of disease. Leaf-cutting ants face the…”
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Recruitment of minor workers for defense against a specialized parasite of Atta leaf-cutting ant fungus gardens by Gerstner, A.T., Poulsen, M., Currie, C.R.

“…Social insects that obligately depend on mutualists are known to defend both themselves and their partners from exploitation. One example is leaf-cutting ants,…”
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Competition, cannibalism and intraguild predation among ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae): a laboratory study by Currie, C.R. (University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.), Spence, J.R, Niemela, J

“…We used laboratory experiments to study the potential for predator-prey and competitive interactions between two carabid beetles, the holarctic Pterostichus…”
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Effect of substrate depth on predation of larval Pterostichus adstrictus Eschscholtz by adults of P. Melanarius (Illiger) (Coleoptera: Carabidae) by Currie, C.R, Digweed, S.C

“…We used a laboratory experiment to test whether larvae of the carabid Pterostichus adstrictus Eschscholtz segregate vertically in the soil from adults of P…”
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