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| Title |
Leaf endophyte load influences fungal garden development in leaf-cutting ants
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6785-12-23 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sunshine A Van Bael, Catalina Estrada, Stephen A Rehner, Janette Fabiola Santos, William T Wcislo |
| Abstract |
Previous work has shown that leaf-cutting ants prefer to cut leaf material with relatively low fungal endophyte content. This preference suggests that fungal endophytes exact a cost on the ants or on the development of their colonies. We hypothesized that endophytes may play a role in their host plants' defense against leaf-cutting ants. To measure the long-term cost to the ant colony of fungal endophytes in their forage material, we conducted a 20-week laboratory experiment to measure fungal garden development for colonies that foraged on leaves with low or high endophyte content. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 92 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| India | 2 | 2% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| Indonesia | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 86 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 15% |
| Researcher | 12 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 12% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 11% |
| Other | 22 | 24% |
| Unknown | 9 | 10% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 59 | 64% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 5 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 3% |
| Chemistry | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 14 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
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