Fungus-growing ants (tribe Attini) comprise all the known fungus-growing ant species participating in ant–fungus mutualism. They are known for cutting...

Ant–fungus mutualism is a symbiosis seen between certain ant and fungal species, in which ants actively cultivate fungus much like humans farm crops as...

tropical, fungus-growing ants are all endemic to South and Central America, Mexico, and parts of the southern United States. Leafcutter ants can carry...

Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, commonly known as zombie-ant fungus, is an insect-pathogenic fungus, discovered by the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace...

hyphal swellings of fungus cultivated by higher-attine genera of fungus-growing ants. This fungus no longer exists naturally outside the ant colonies. Developing...

cephalotes is a species of leafcutter ant in the tribe Attini (the fungus-growing ants). A single colony of ants can contain up to 5 million members, and...

asexual populations all ants in a single colony are female clones of the queen. Inside the colony, the ants cultivate a garden of fungus grown with pieces of...

cultivated by fungus-growing ants but was formerly known as Leucocoprinus gongylophorus whilst other species cultivated by the lesser attine ants are still...

Ants of Attini cultivate fungi. Microfungi, specialized to be parasites of the fungus gardens, coevolved with them. Allomerus decemarticulatus ants use...

leaf-cutter ant, a New World ant of the subfamily Myrmicinae of the genus Atta. This species is from one of the two genera of advanced attines (fungus-growing ants)...

gongylophorus is a fungus in the family Agaricaceae which is cultivated by certain leafcutter ants. Like other species of fungi cultivated by ants, L. gongylophorus...

co-exist in a symbiotic relationship with attini ants - fungus-growing ants. The highly evolved, ancient ant-fungus mutualism has become a model system in the...

colombica is one of 47 species of leafcutter ants. This species is part of the Attini tribe (the fungus-growing ants). Workers of this species are maroon in...

species found in ant lack the ability to fix nitrogen. Fungus-growing ants that make up the tribe Attini, including leafcutter ants, cultivate certain...

Ant farm may refer to: A formicarium, designed primarily for the study of ant colonies Agriculture by fungus-growing ants Ant Farm (group), a group of...

use their mounds to cultivate fungus in a symbiotic relationship, similar to leaf-cutter ants (fungus-cultivating ants). Worker termites find plant debris...

(October 2004). "Evolution of ant-cultivar specialization and cultivar switching in Apterostigma fungus-growing ants". Evolution; International Journal...

This species is from one of the two genera of advanced attines (fungus-growing ants) within the tribe Attini. Acromyrmex subterraneus molestans Acromyrmex...

eat the ants alive.[citation needed] A. sexdens, like all leafcutter ants, is mycophagic. They live in a symbiotic relationship with a fungus belonging...

species of Escovopsis from both genera of fungus-growing ants, Atta and Acromyrmex, four of which came from ant colonies in Brazil and the fifth of which...

A fungus (pl.: fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as...

(fungus-growing ants) within the tribe Attini. Acromyrmex gallardoi Santschi, 1936 Sericomyrmex gallardoi Santschi, 1920 List of leafcutter ants "Acromyrmex...

Leucoagaricus and Leucocoprinus are known to be cultivated by fungus-growing ants in ant-fungus mutualism. The genus Agaricus includes some species that are...

myrmicine in the family Formicidae. It is part of the tribe Attini, or fungus-growing ants. These two subspecies belong to the species Cyphomyrmex rimosus:...

the others are extant. They are fungus-growing ants, though, unlike the majority of other species in Attini who grow Lepiotaceae, some species have begun...

the family Lyophyllaceae. All of which are completely dependent on fungus-growing termites, the Macrotermitinae, to survive, and vice versa. They are...

internationally known American myrmecologist, specializing in the fungus-growing ants (the attines). Weber graduated from the University of North Dakota...

the two genera of advanced attines (fungus-growing ants) within the tribe Attini. List of leafcutter ants "Acromyrmex mesopotamicus". SIB. Retrieved 2010-08-20...

Mycetosoritis is a genus of fungus-growing ants in the subfamily Myrmicinae. Mycetosoritis aspera (Mayr, 1887) Mycetosoritis clorindae (Kusnezov, 1949)...

advanced attines (fungus-growing ants) within the tribe Attini. Colonies are made up of around 4-7 million individuals. List of leafcutter ants "Species: Atta...