• DOI:10.1038/19619
Corpus ID: 5167611

Ants, plants and antibiotics

@article{Schultz1999AntsPA,
  title={Ants, plants and antibiotics},
  author={T. Schultz},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1999},
  volume={398},
  pages={747-748}
}

T. Schultz

Published 1999

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Leaf-cutting ants cultivate a mushroom from the fungal tribe Leucocoprini as a source of food. But a new study shows that there is another partner in this mutually beneficial relationship -- a bacterium from the genusStreptomyces, which produces antibiotics to prevent infestation of the ant garden by the fungal parasite Escovopsis.