mSystems (Aug 2021)
Chemical Gradients of Plant Substrates in an <i>Atta texana</i> Fungus Garden
- Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez,
- Sara P. Puckett,
- Kathleen E. Kyle,
- Daniel Petras,
- Ricardo da Silva,
- Louis-Félix Nothias,
- Madeleine Ernst,
- Justin J. J. van der Hooft,
- Anupriya Tripathi,
- Mingxun Wang,
- Marcy J. Balunas,
- Jonathan L. Klassen,
- Pieter C. Dorrestein
Affiliations
- Andrés Mauricio Caraballo-Rodríguez
- ORCiD
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- Sara P. Puckett
- ORCiD
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
- Kathleen E. Kyle
- ORCiD
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
- Daniel Petras
- ORCiD
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- Ricardo da Silva
- ORCiD
- School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil
- Louis-Félix Nothias
- ORCiD
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- Madeleine Ernst
- ORCiD
- Section for Clinical Mass Spectrometry, Danish Center for Neonatal Screening, Department of Congenital Disorders, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Justin J. J. van der Hooft
- ORCiD
- Bioinformatics Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, the Netherlands
- Anupriya Tripathi
- ORCiD
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- Mingxun Wang
- ORCiD
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- Marcy J. Balunas
- ORCiD
- Division of Medicinal Chemistry, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
- Jonathan L. Klassen
- ORCiD
- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA
- Pieter C. Dorrestein
- ORCiD
- Collaborative Mass Spectrometry Innovation Center, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1128/mSystems.00601-21
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 6,
no. 4
Abstract
The study of complex ecosystems requires an understanding of the chemical processes involving molecules from several sources. Some of the molecules present in fungus-growing ants’ symbiotic system originate from plants.
