Search Results - "Montoya, Quimi Vidaurre"
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Genomic insights into the evolution of secondary metabolism of Escovopsis and its allies, specialized fungal symbionts of fungus-farming ants
Published in mSystems (23-07-2024)“…The metabolic intimacy of symbiosis often demands the work of specialists. Natural products and defensive secondary metabolites can drive specificity by…”
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Fungi from Admiralty Bay (King George Island, Antarctica) Soils and Marine Sediments
Published in Microbial ecology (01-01-2019)“…Extreme environments such as the Antarctic can lead to the discovery of new microbial taxa, as well as to new microbial-derived natural products. Considering…”
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The Hyphosphere of Leaf-Cutting Ant Cultivars Is Enriched with Helper Bacteria
Published in Microbial ecology (01-10-2023)“…Bacteria can live in a variety of interkingdom communities playing key ecological roles. The microbiome of leaf-cutting attine ant colonies are a remarkable…”
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Unraveling fungal species cultivated by lower attine ants
Published in Mycological progress (01-09-2023)“…Fungus-growing attine ants rely on an obligatory nutritional mutualism with fungi. Most attine ant genera cultivate fungi in the basidiomycete tribe…”
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Fungi inhabiting attine ant colonies: reassessment of the genus Escovopsis and description of Luteomyces and Sympodiorosea gens. nov
Published in IMA fungus (24-08-2021)“…Abstract Escovopsis is a diverse group of fungi, which are considered specialized parasites of the fungal cultivars of fungus-growing ants. The lack of a…”
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More pieces to a huge puzzle: Two new Escovopsis species from fungus gardens of attine ants
Published in MycoKeys (Sofia, Bulgaria) (18-02-2019)“…(Ascomycota: Hypocreales, Hypocreaceae) is the only known parasite of the mutualistic fungi cultivated by fungus-growing ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini:…”
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Unraveling Trichoderma species in the attine ant environment: description of three new taxa
Published in Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (01-05-2016)“…Fungus-growing “attine” ants forage diverse substrates to grow fungi for food. In addition to the mutualistic fungal partner, the colonies of these insects…”
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Culture-dependent methods reveal the diversity of endophytic fungi of Psidium cattleianum leaves (Myrtales: Myrtaceae)
Published in Brazilian journal of microbiology (19-08-2024)“…Endophytic fungi are a diverse group of microorganisms that reside within plant tissues and play a crucial ecological role in the development of their hosts…”
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Escovopsioides nivea is a non-specific antagonistic symbiont of ant-fungal crops
Published in Fungal ecology (01-04-2022)“…Fungus-growing attine ants maintain a mutualistic relationship with basidiomycete fungi which they cultivate for food. In addition to the fungal partner,…”
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Antimicrobial activity of crude extracts of endophytic fungi from Oryctanthus alveolatus (Kunth) Kuijt (Mistletoe)
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