Unraveling Culturable Microfungal Communities Associated with Colonies of the Fungus-Farming Ant Mycetomoellerius urichii (Forel, 1893)
Mateus Oliveira da Cruz, Quimi Vidaurre Montoya, Raquel Lima de Sousa, Gabriel Giorgio Pressuto Pennachioni, Andre Rodrigues · 2026
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Description
Fungus-farming ants keep gardens of fungus for food, and other fungi move into those gardens uninvited. Mateus Oliveira da Cruz and co-authors catalogue the culturable microfungi living in colonies of one farming ant, Mycetomoellerius urichii. The species is not a leaf-cutter, and its garden guests were nearly unknown.
Growing the fungi out and checking four genetic markers, they named 94 species. The most common were a Trichoderma, a Syncephalastrum, and a Cladosporium. Several guests matched species known from leaf-cutter gardens. Most lived mixed lifestyles, part parasite, part decomposer, part partner. Each colony's mix differed, with no steady pairing pattern between species. The survey is the first community portrait of its kind for this ant.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mateus Oliveira da Cruz, Quimi Vidaurre Montoya, Raquel Lima de Sousa, Gabriel Giorgio Pressuto Pennachioni, Andre Rodrigues |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |