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Bacteria Contribute to Plant Secondary Compound Degradation in a Generalist Herbivore System by Francoeur, Charlotte B, Khadempour, Lily, Moreira-Soto, Rolando D, Gotting, Kirsten, Book, Adam J, Pinto-Tomás, Adrián A, Keefover-Ring, Ken, Currie, Cameron R

“…Herbivores must overcome a variety of plant defenses, including coping with plant secondary compounds (PSCs). To help detoxify these defensive chemicals,…”
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Prey identity affects fitness of a generalist consumer in a brown food web by Khadempour, Lily, Rivas Quijano, Leslie, terHorst, Casey P.

“…The use of ever‐advancing sequencing technologies has revealed incredible biodiversity at the microbial scale, and yet we know little about the ecological…”
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Metagenomics Reveals Diet-Specific Specialization of Bacterial Communities in Fungus Gardens of Grass- and Dicot-Cutter Ants by Khadempour, Lily, Fan, Huan, Keefover-Ring, Ken, Carlos-Shanley, Camila, Nagamoto, Nilson S., Dam, Miranda A., Pupo, Monica T., Currie, Cameron R.

“…Leaf-cutter ants in the genus Atta are dominant herbivores in the Neotropics. While most species of Atta cut dicots to incorporate into their fungus gardens,…”
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Erratum for Francoeur et al., “Bacteria Contribute to Plant Secondary Compound Degradation in a Generalist Herbivore System” by Francoeur, Charlotte B, Khadempour, Lily, Moreira-Soto, Rolando D, Gotting, Kirsten, Book, Adam J, Pinto-Tomas, Adrián A, Keefover-Ring, Ken, Currie, Cameron R

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Enrichment and Broad Representation of Plant Biomass-Degrading Enzymes in the Specialized Hyphal Swellings of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the Fungal Symbiont of Leaf-Cutter Ants by Aylward, Frank O, Khadempour, Lily, Tremmel, Daniel M, McDonald, Bradon R, Nicora, Carrie D, Wu, Si, Moore, Ronald J, Orton, Daniel J, Monroe, Matthew E, Piehowski, Paul D, Purvine, Samuel O, Smith, Richard D, Lipton, Mary S, Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E, Currie, Cameron R

“…Leaf-cutter ants are prolific and conspicuous constituents of Neotropical ecosystems that derive energy from specialized fungus gardens they cultivate using…”
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From Plants to Ants: Fungal Modification of Leaf Lipids for Nutrition and Communication in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungal Garden Ecosystem by Khadempour, Lily, Kyle, Jennifer E, Webb-Robertson, Bobbie-Jo M, Nicora, Carrie D, Smith, Francesca B, Smith, Richard D, Lipton, Mary S, Currie, Cameron R, Baker, Erin S, Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E

“…Lipids are essential to all living organisms, as an energy source, as an important cellular structural component, and as a communication tool. In this study,…”
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From Plants to Ants: Fungal Modification of Leaf Lipids for Nutrition and Communication in the Leaf-Cutter Ant Fungal Garden Ecosystem by Khadempour, Lily, Kyle, Jennifer E., Webb-Robertson, Bobbie-Jo M., Nicora, Carrie D., Smith, Francesca B., Smith, Richard D., Lipton, Mary S., Currie, Cameron R., Baker, Erin S., Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E.

“…Lipids are essential to all living organisms, as an energy source, as an important cellular structural component, and as a communication tool. In this study,…”
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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 by Aylward, Frank O, Khadempour, Lily, Tremmel, Daniel M, McDonald, Bradon R, Nicora, Carrie D, Wu, Si, Moore, Ronald J, Orton, Daniel J, Monroe, Matthew E, Piehowski, Paul D, Purvine, Samuel O, Smith, Richard D, Lipton, Mary S, Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E, Currie, Cameron R

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Stingless Bee Larvae Require Fungal Steroid to Pupate by Paludo, Camila R., Menezes, Cristiano, Silva-Junior, Eduardo A., Vollet-Neto, Ayrton, Andrade-Dominguez, Andres, Pishchany, Gleb, Khadempour, Lily, do Nascimento, Fabio S., Currie, Cameron R., Kolter, Roberto, Clardy, Jon, Pupo, Mônica T.

“…The larval stage of the stingless bee Scaptotrigona depilis must consume a specific brood cell fungus in order to continue development. Here we show that this…”
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Championing inclusive terminology in ecology and evolution by Cheng, Susan J., Gaynor, Kaitlyn M., Moore, Alex C., Darragh, Kathy, Estien, Cesar O., Hammond, J.W., Lawrence, Christopher, Mills, Kirby L., Baiz, Marcella D., Ignace, Danielle, Khadempour, Lily, McCary, Matthew A., Rice, Mallory M., Tumber-Dávila, Shersingh Joseph, Smith, Justine A.

“…Amid a growing disciplinary commitment to inclusion in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB), it is critical to consider how the use of scientific language…”
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Genomic diversification of the specialized parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis by Gotting, Kirsten, May, Daniel S, Sosa-Calvo, Jeffrey, Khadempour, Lily, Francoeur, Charlotte B, Berasategui, Aileen, Thairu, Margaret W, Sandstrom, Shelby, Carlson, Caitlin M, Chevrette, Marc G, Pupo, Mônica T, Bugni, Tim S, Schultz, Ted R, Johnston, J Spencer, Gerardo, Nicole M, Currie, Cameron R

“…Fungi shape the diversity of life. Characterizing the evolution of fungi is critical to understanding symbiotic associations across kingdoms. In this study, we…”
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Bacteria Contribute to Plant Secondary Compound Degradation in a Generalist Herbivore System by Francoeur, Charlotte B., Khadempour, Lily, Moreira-Soto, Rolando D., Gotting, Kirsten, Book, Adam J., Pinto-Tomás, Adrián A., Keefover-Ring, Ken, Currie, Cameron R., McFall-Ngai, Margaret J.

“…Leaf-cutter ants are dominant neotropical herbivores capable of deriving energy from a wide range of plant substrates. The success of leaf-cutter ants is…”
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Microbial Mediation of Herbivory in Leaf-cutter Ant Fungus Gardens by Khadempour, Lily

“…Most metazoans lack the physiological capacity to use plants as their sole source of energy and nutrients. To compensate for this, metazoans associate with…”
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The Relative Abundance of Mountain Pine Beetle Fungal Associates Through the Beetle Life Cycle in Pine Trees by Khadempour, Lily, LeMay, Valerie, Jack, David, Bohlmann, Jörg, Breuil, Colette

“…The mountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native bark beetle of western North America that attacks pine tree species, particularly lodgepole pine. It is closely…”
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The fungal cultivar of leaf-cutter ants produces specific enzymes in response to different plant substrates by Khadempour, Lily, Burnum-Johnson, Kristin E., Baker, Erin S., Nicora, Carrie D., Webb-Robertson, Bobbie-Jo M., White III, Richard A., Monroe, Matthew E., Huang, Eric L., Smith, Richard D., Currie, Cameron R.

“…Herbivores use symbiotic microbes to help derive energy and nutrients from plant material. Leaf‐cutter ants are a paradigmatic example, cultivating their…”
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Target-specific PCR primers can detect and differentiate ophiostomatoid fungi from microbial communities associated with the mountain pine beetle Dendroctonus ponderosae by Khadempour, Lily, Massoumi Alamouti, Sepideh, Hamelin, Richard, Bohlmann, Jörg, Breuil, Colette

“…The aim of this study was to develop DNA probes that could identify the major fungal species associated with mountain pine beetles (MPB). The beetles are…”
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Rapid identification and detection of pine pathogenic fungi associated with mountain pine beetles by padlock probes by Tsui, Clement K.M., Wang, Bin, Khadempour, Lily, Alamouti, Sepideh Massoumi, Bohlmann, Jörg, Murray, Brent W., Hamelin, Richard C.

“…Fifteen million hectares of pine forests in western Canada have been attacked by the mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae; MPB), leading to…”
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Enrichment and Broad Representation of Plant Biomass-Degrading Enzymes in the Specialized Hyphal Swellings of Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the Fungal Symbiont of Leaf-Cutter Ants: e0134752 by Aylward, Frank O, Khadempour, Lily, Tremmel, Daniel M, McDonald, Bradon R, Nicora, Carrie D, Wu, Si, Moore, Ronald J, Orton, Daniel J, Monroe, Matthew E, Piehowski, Paul D

“…Leaf-cutter ants are prolific and conspicuous constituents of Neotropical ecosystems that derive energy from specialized fungus gardens they cultivate using…”
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