Nature Communications (Jul 2016)
Reciprocal genomic evolution in the ant–fungus agricultural symbiosis
- Sanne Nygaard,
- Haofu Hu,
- Cai Li,
- Morten Schiøtt,
- Zhensheng Chen,
- Zhikai Yang,
- Qiaolin Xie,
- Chunyu Ma,
- Yuan Deng,
- Rebecca B. Dikow,
- Christian Rabeling,
- David R. Nash,
- William T. Wcislo,
- Seán G. Brady,
- Ted R. Schultz,
- Guojie Zhang,
- Jacobus J. Boomsma
Affiliations
- Sanne Nygaard
- Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen
- Haofu Hu
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Cai Li
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Morten Schiøtt
- Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen
- Zhensheng Chen
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Zhikai Yang
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Qiaolin Xie
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Chunyu Ma
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Yuan Deng
- China National Genbank, BGI-Shenzhen
- Rebecca B. Dikow
- Smithsonian Institute for Biodiversity Genomics, Smithsonian Institution
- Christian Rabeling
- Department of Biology, University of Rochester
- David R. Nash
- Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen
- William T. Wcislo
- Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
- Seán G. Brady
- Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- Ted R. Schultz
- Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
- Guojie Zhang
- Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen
- Jacobus J. Boomsma
- Department of Biology, Centre for Social Evolution, University of Copenhagen
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12233
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 7,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 9
Abstract
Attine ants, including the leaf-cutting ants, cultivate fungi as their sole source of food. Here, Nygaard et al. use whole genome and transcriptome sequences from seven ant species and their fungal cultivars to reconstruct the reciprocal genetic changes underlying the evolution of the ant-fungus mutualism.
