Journal article
Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade of Entomoplasmatales Bacteria
Applied and environmental microbiology, v 77(1), pp 346-350
Jan 2011
PMID: 21075876
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Abstract
In this article, we describe the distributions of
Entomoplasmatales
bacteria across the ants, identifying a novel lineage of gut bacteria that is unique to the army ants. While our findings indicate that the
Entomoplasmatales
are not essential for growth or development, molecular analyses suggest that this relationship is host specific and potentially ancient. The documented trends add to a growing body of literature that hints at a diversity of undiscovered associations between ants and bacterial symbionts.
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- Title
- Army Ants Harbor a Host-Specific Clade of Entomoplasmatales Bacteria
- Creators
- Colin F Funaro - Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Daniel J. C Kronauer - Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Corrie S Moreau - Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Benjamin Goldman-Huertas - Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Naomi E Pierce - Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Jacob A Russell - Department of Biology, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104
- Publication Details
- Applied and environmental microbiology, v 77(1), pp 346-350
- Publisher
- American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Biology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000285550300041
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79251617235
- Other Identifier
- 991014877666904721
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- Domestic collaboration
- Web of Science research areas
- Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
- Microbiology