Ecology and evolution of insect–fungus mutualisms

PHW Biedermann, FE Vega - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
The evolution of a mutualism requires reciprocal interactions whereby one species provides
a service that the other species cannot perform or performs less efficiently. Services …

The evolution of cooperation

JL Sachs, UG Mueller, TP Wilcox… - The Quarterly review of …, 2004 - journals.uchicago.edu
Darwin recognized that natural selection could not favor a trait in one species solely for the
benefit of another species. The modern, selfish-gene view of the world suggests that …

[图书][B] The ecology and evolution of ant-plant interactions

V Rico-Gray, PS Oliveira - 2008 - books.google.com
Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

Fungus-growing ants use antibiotic-producing bacteria to control garden parasites

CR Currie, JA Scott, RC Summerbell, D Malloch - Nature, 1999 - nature.com
The well-studied, ancient and highly evolved mutualism between fungus-growing ants and
their fungi has become a model system in the study of symbiosis,. Although it is thought at …

Major clades of Agaricales: a multilocus phylogenetic overview

PB Matheny, JM Curtis, V Hofstetter, MC Aime… - Mycologia, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
An overview of the phylogeny of the Agaricales is presented based on a multilocus analysis
of a six-gene region supermatrix. Bayesian analyses of 5611 nucleotide characters of rpb1 …

[图书][B] Ant ecology

L Lach, C Parr, K Abbott - 2010 - books.google.com
Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

The evolution of mutualisms: exploring the paths between conflict and cooperation

EA Herre, N Knowlton, UG Mueller… - Trends in ecology & …, 1999 - cell.com
Mutualisms are of fundamental importance in all ecosystems but their very existence poses
a series of challenging evolutionary questions. Recently, the application of molecular …

AFLP genotyping and fingerprinting

UG Mueller, LLR Wolfenbarger - Trends in ecology & evolution, 1999 - cell.com
Amplified fragment length polymorphisms (AFLPs) are polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-
based markers for the rapid screening of genetic diversity. AFLP methods rapidly generate …

The evolution of agriculture in insects

UG Mueller, NM Gerardo, DK Aanen… - Annu. Rev. Ecol …, 2005 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Agriculture has evolved independently in three insect orders: once in ants, once in
termites, and seven times in ambrosia beetles. Although these insect farmers are in some …

Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture

TR Schultz, SG Brady - Proceedings of the National …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Agriculture is a specialized form of symbiosis that is known to have evolved in only four
animal groups: humans, bark beetles, termites, and ants. Here, we reconstruct the major …